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Ecumenical parishes need not necessarily abandon their denominational identity. One of the nation's largest ecclesiastical combines is the Bushwick parish in Brooklyn, where 37 Roman Catholic and Protestant churches have joined "to unite the resources of the Christian community in a concerted attack" on the socioeconomic problems of the poverty-ridden district. Recently they hired a full-time coordinator, Presbyterian Minister John Peterson, to advise member-ministers on programs they might develop. The parish so far has fielded volunteer-manned patrol cars to assist police in curbing crime, organized a child-care program for working mothers...
...Hult, recently ordered a half-built $2,500,000 Queens school to be partly dismantled because of weak concrete. Hult also publicized the quaint fact that school custodians, who get lump-sum maintenance funds and are allowed to socket unspent money, have been geting rich in the process. Bushwick High's D. Paul Bishop reportedly got $53,000 ast year, topping Gross's salary by $13,000 and the mayor's by $3,000. The word is that the next overspending to be exposed is on chartered school buses. 'I'm delighted," says Gross...
...Shor pal. Shuman confided that in his spare time he sometimes liked to shoot a little pool. Gleason prides himself on shooting an excellent stick in his own right, and always has (at the age of 13, he became the pool champion of his neighborhood in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, upholding the honor and petty bets of the Irish kids against the Italian champion "from up the hill"). He invited Shuman to try his skill at a nearby billiard room. Shuman nicked Gleason for $100 in a close game of straight. "I'll bet you another hundred," said...
When he proposed he said: " 'I'm earning twenty-two a week and I've got nearly two hundred dollars in the Bushwick Savings Bank . . . I've never horsed around with women. You're the first girl I was ever serious about. Maybe you could do better-a girl like you. But you could do a lot worse than taking me . . .' Thus he laid his meager shining life before...
...young doctor at Brooklyn's Bushwick hospital squinted incredulously at the thermometer in his hand. The reading: 110° Fahrenheit. Two more readings with two other thermometers convinced Dr. Moritz Wilchfort that Student Nurse Sophie Sapala, 21, suffering from undulant fever, had hit a new high in body heat and lived. High fever marks (with survival) previously recorded in medical history...