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...have broken bones. Then, weeks later, Florence will predict your future in a handwritten report which may run upwards of nine pages. Afterwards you will sit in Florence's section and leave her tips. Nevertheless, Florence has a certain altruistic concern and helpfulness which you won't find at Coney Island...
VESSEL OF WRATH, by Robert Lewis Taylor. A new and nimble biography of Carry Nation, whose hatchet made a shambles of saloons from Medicine Lodge to Coney Island...
...prairie state could long contain such an irresistible force. Eventually, Mrs. Nation's arrest record logged entries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Scranton, Bayonne and Coney Island. The forces arrayed against her were formidable, and formidably unchivalrous. At the hands of defensive saloonkeepers, Carry suffered nearly as much damage as she dealt. One annoyed publican in Bangor, Me., knocked her down four times, and a gold breast pin was molded for the Topeka bartender's wife who slugged Carry...
Countless forgotten ghettos--Williamsberg, Coney Island, Morrisania, the South Bronx, the Upper West Side --are learning that to get anything from a high school to a recreation program, a community must be organized and must show that it can be a trouble maker if it is not well cared for. "I can't exactly tell people to get out in the streets,"' explained one Board of Education leader in the South Bronx, "but that's what they'll have to do to get schools...
Tempers and temperatures rose together. The heat, as much as ideology, triggered Chicago's race riots, a "wade-in" in Grenada, Miss., violence at New York City's Coney Island, and a prison eruption in Baltimore. Deaths, mostly of old people, were up 40% in New York, 50% in Atlanta and in St. Louis, where 146 fatalities were directly attributed to the weather. The St. Louis city morgue had to borrow stretchers when it received eight to ten times as many bodies as normal. "Deaths will hit several hundred before this is over," predicted Dr. W. W. Billings...