Word: clarkstown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the first racketing assault on his hearing, the cop at the Clarkstown, N.Y. police station held the telephone several inches from his ear. A Russian-it sounded as if the caller were being flayed with a dull cabbage scraper-was on the other end of the line. The Russian was speaking from Reed Farm, a 70-acre estate operated by Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, youngest daughter of famed Russian Author Leo Tolstoy. A woman, the Russian cried, had been stolen...
...With a friend she went to see "Doctor" Pierre A. Bernard, formerly Oom the Omnipotent, at his handsome Clarkstown Country Club in Nyack, N.Y. He is an ex-barber who found there was money in "sex worship" and later took up Yoga, the Hindu art of controlling mind through muscle-(he trained Prize Fighter Lou Nova for his bout with Joe Louis). Oom said he could help Junior for a "membership fee" of $125. His method: "We kid people out of being grouchy...
...remodeled chicken houses on the country estate of Cinemagnate Adolph Zukor, the North Clarkstown (N.Y.) artists and writers colony has operated the most deluxe civilian-defense "depot" in rural America. There, one recent night, lofty Playwright Maxwell Anderson dutifully watched for enemy planes, patiently waited for alarms, idly surveyed stocks of tools, food and medicine...
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