Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They are Evelyn B. Ackerman of Edmands House and Brooklyn, N.Y. (History and Literature); Vivian O. Berger, of * Hall and New York City (History and Literature); Nancy L. Caroline of 83 Brattle St. and Newton Center (Social Relations); S. Jean Herriot, of Moors Hall and Palo Alto, Calif, (History); Mary Lou Mackey, of 24 Garden St. and Indianapolis Ind. (English); Patricia A. Munse of Comstock Hall and Urbann, * (Biology); Elisabeth Neumark, of * House and Jamaica, N.Y. (Mathematics); and Susan N. Rosenthal, of Moors Hall and Tenafly, N.J. (Chemistry...
Gilbert was raised in a tough section of Brooklyn, but managed to escape being contaminated by the rough-necks. At age 11, he went with his younger brother to Camp Molloy, a Catholic camp on Long Island, where one of the counselors wanted him to sing in the camp show. Gilbert was reluctant, but the counselor advised, "Just look at the light over your head and make believe you're in the shower." He looked up and sang, and the shower was one of loud applause. That day Gilbert discovered he had a fine soprano voice...
...last week, New York's Democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler, 76, rose in the sparsely populated House chamber to perform a labor of love. Celler's task: to speak on his bill outlawing gerrymandering of congressional districts. It was a subject close to Manny Celler's old Brooklyn heart...
Weiner encouraged students to write home requesting letters from friends and relatives. He thinks that this would place the greatest possible pressure on local Congressmen. Weiner appealed specifically to New York residents, reminding them that Rep. Emmanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) and seven other Brooklyn Congressmen had voted against the January resolution...
...Buffalo, but he took a roundabout route to Broadway. He studied architecture at Penn State, did a stint as a Roxy usher ("The stage design was hideous"), tried selling mackinaws in Gimbels' basement. He was also a member of the ménage in the Brooklyn Heights town house shared by W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Carson McCullers and Richard Wright. Smith was the dishwasher and furnace man. He also thought he was a painter. His first show, if little else, attracted William Saroyan, who instantly commissioned Smith, then 23, to design his Beautiful People for Broadway...