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...discovery in May 1932 of the decomposed body of 20-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. in a shallow grave near Hopewell, N.J., ended a 72-day search for the kidnaped child and catapulted the Negro worker into brief but unfortunate fame, landing him as a freak in a Coney Island exhibit until public pressure forced New Jersey Governor A. Harry Moore to find him state employment and give him a $5,000 reward; of heart disease; in Trenton...
...middle of the Williamsburg Bridge, high above the inky East River, 1,700 passengers in two trains were suspended like riders on the Coney Island Wonder Wheel. "The wind would blow," said Mary Cronin Doyle, 18, "and the train would sway, and then some woman would scream." It took police five hours to assist everybody across a precarious, 11-in.-wide catwalk running 35 ft. from the train tracks to the bridge's roadway. All told, 2,000 trapped passengers preferred to wait it out?including 60 who spent 14 hours in a stalled train under the East River...
French cubism and Italian futurism gave Italian-born Joseph Stella the organization for his Coney Island, with its warring scene of roller coasters and jumbled humanity. German expressionism gave the discipline to Marsden Hartley's strong Maine landscapes fishermen and lumberjacks. Georgia O'Keeffe, now 77 and living in New Mexico, depicts with barebone simplicity her lyric view of "my country−terrible winds and wonderful emptiness." Even more sharp-focused was Charles Demuth's I saw the Figure 5 in Gold, with its exulation of typography and kaleidoscopic street imagery, is now revered as an icon...
...York University Law School, and found them bad. After saving some money he decided to enroll at Columbia Law School as a day student. On his way to Morningside Heights to matriculate, Frankfurter met a City College classmate, and the two of them ended up going off to Coney Island for the day. Before Frankfurter ever got around to going up to Columbia to register, a friend in the Tenement House Department suggested that he go to Harvard Law School...
...relief. He can fire a salvo of laughter with the whites of his eyes, and step on a dud line so that it explodes, but he has to work so hard to be playful that it kills the fun. Apart from Hackett, only Luba Lisa comes out of this Coney Island carnage with talent and personality arrestingly intact. Moving like a sexy-hexy wind-up doll, with the voice of a Jewish Chatty Cathy and the body of Salome, she gives the impression of being cheerfully in debt to the whole male race as she waits for the next...