Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good deal different, but Gleason's new Honeymooners is a lot better-better, in fact, than any other comedy series on the air. Dressed up now and then with music and dancing, the adventures of gullible Brooklyn Bus Driver Ralph Kramden (Gleason) and goofy Sewer Worker Ed Norton (Art Carney) rock with a screwball spontaneity that puts the team in a class with the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy. At the same time, they are never so far out that the audience has the slightest trouble identifying them as a couple of ordinary likable slobs. "This...
Learn was arraigned in Brooklyn Federal Court and released without bail, pending action by a grand jury. The maximum sentence on this new charge is three years in prison and $1000 fine. The Texas conviction, which he is appealing, carries, up to 30 years...
HOGAN'S GOAT is Playwright William Alfred's melopoetic study of the political animal in brawling Irish Brooklyn at the turn of the century...
...again about to be built, Mayor Lindsay came into office. He at once appointed Walter Hoving's son Thomas as the new Parks Commissioner, and flatly turned down the cafe. Mr. Thomas Hoving then suggested to me that I give my money to the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. I finally agreed to give two-thirds of it to Bedford-Stuyvesant if one-third could be used for a smaller version of the cafe at the proposed site. For this offer, Mr. Hoving accused me of holding out "a carrot on a stick" to Bedford-Stuyvesant and causing racial...
That sort of grim efficiency would never do for Notre Dame's legion of fans across the U.S. After all, what subway alumnus ever dreams of off-tackle plunges while riding the BMT home to Brooklyn? Coach Ara Parseghian knew just what was needed. "Enthusiasm," reads a sign on his office wall. "If we have it, we should thank God for it. If we don't have it, we should get down on our knees and pray for it." Fact is, Ara could barely contain his enthusiasm when the Irish opened their season against Purdue two weeks...