Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most low-key people in the business. Summer looks the part more than Bradley does. He came into the studio after 10, dressed in a sweater and sport shirt, carrying 'a stack of 45's from his own collection. He is 30, dark and stocky, with a low, Brooklyn-accented voice in marked contrast to the General American diction of most people in broadcasting...
...would help build up challengers for their own seats (although the proposal as now drafted would force a Representative to resign at least a month before Election Day if he decided to run for the Senate). Some House members who face little challenge in their districts also are skeptical. Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, a 22-term Congressman and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, reasons: "The House represents the people, and they should have the right to register their will more often than every four years...
...sang Poetess Marianne Moore in her 1955 encomium to the Brooklyn...
Dodgers, Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese. Alas, even with a rooting muse like that, the team packed up for Los Angeles, leaving its poet in residence behind in Brooklyn, where she went on celebrating the borough, her "city of trees." But in the following season, she found that not all the bums had gone West. Drunks rang her doorbell at 3 a.m., and "one of my neighbors was robbed three times," she complained. So, at 78, after 35 years, Miss Moore moved to Greenwich Village, where a baseball diamond is very square...
...arcane art comes from the strange palm-print patterns found on babies born to mothers who had German measles early in their pregnancy during the epidemic that swept the U.S. in 1964-65. Since these are babies likely to be suffering from hidden but serious abnormalities, reports Brooklyn's Dr. Ruth Achs, the visible but minor abnormalities of their palms may well be a valuable medical clue...