Word: clevelanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wives' tales have long held that it is better not to be born in a certain season (which season depends on which old wife). Physicians are now trying to find out whether there is any basis for the notion. Last week the American Public Health Association, meeting in Cleveland, heard unexpected findings...
...move, said railroaders, is part of a gentlemen's agreement with the Pennsylvania Railroad, which runs 20 Baltimore-New York round trips daily. In return for B. & O.'s stepping off the tracks, the Pennsy will pare down its own passenger service on the Baltimore-Washington and Cleveland-Detroit routes, where it is a major competitor...
While waiting, Russell disinterestedly outlined his career. He grew up in East Cleveland's Hungarian Buckeye Road district, left school at sixteen, and played saxophone in his own jazz band. ("I called myself Jack Russell because the announcers couldn't pronounce my name.") "Doing odd jobs for East Cleveland politicians" followed and towards the end of the Depression, Russell was clearing $25,000 a year publishing four weekly throw-always at his Buckeye Press. "We had tremendous advertising," he said, "that explains the profit...
...during these years, Russell has been closely associated with Cleveland's top hoodlum and racketeer, Alex (Shondor) Birns, and one-times bingo king AlFlagel. He has also done "favors" for the his 36,000 registered electors ("I figure I do 1,000 favors a year"), and remembers the children in his ward with Christmas and zoo parties ("They grow up and become voters...
...know, professor, you're all right," Russell observed. "You should run for mayor. I know a butcher back in Cleveland who runs every year just to see how many friends he has. Why don't you run?" The political scientist declined...