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...East River to a landing at Kip's Bay (34th Street). Under the massed fire of 86 naval cannon, the Connecticut farm-boy defenders ran for their lives. General George Washington, taken by surprise, galloped down from his headquarters at the northern end of the island (now Coogan's Bluff, overlooking the Polo Grounds). "Take the wall," he shouted. "Take the cornfield." When the militiamen rushed unheeding past him, according to some accounts, he wept, hurled his hat to the ground and roared, "Are these the men with which I am to defend America?" Then for a long...
Even in Detroit, where unsteady race relations make a police "commando squad" necessary, indignant voices were raised for Rouse. Detroit University's Father John E. Coogan, S.J., chairman of the city's Commission on Community Relations, urged the Rouse family to "refuse to yield to violence." Rouse, who said he had always lived in white neighborhoods without trouble, confessed he had no stomach for pioneering among "people who start trouble without even seeing me and my wife. I would have held out except for the grandchildren. If they lived here and went to school, the kids would pick...
HOUSING BOOM will slow down next year, predicts Thomas Coogan president of Manhattan's Housing Securities Inc., a mortgage clearing house. Reason, says Coogan: overbuilding in some areas and mortgage credit curbs by the Veterans Administration, FHA and other agencies have already slowed down sales and will "create a serious drop in housing starts next year...
...TIME'S Sports Editor has been sentenced to call Coogan's Bluff...
...dismal stretch the Giants lost 11 in a row. It was a test of fire for loyal followers, and many a diehard, headed for Coogan's Bluff, was heard to mutter lamely that he was going out to the ballpark, only because he needed a sunbath. The lard-encased Manhattan saloonkeeper, Toots Shor, once spoke the agony of all Giant fans in one gloomy flirtation with apostasy. "I been wonderin' lately," he told a friend. "I'm raising my kids to be Giant fans. I don't know whether I'm doing the right thing...