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...month ago, the building industry has been in a sweat. The Government was going to halt all house construction, so the rumors went, or at least impose such stiff controls that only Government-financed housing would be able to get materials. In Washington last week moonfaced Thomas P. Coogan, president of the National Association of Home Builders (17,000 members), and his executive committee sat down with federal officials to find out just how hard housing would be hit by rearmament...
...days and most of one night of conferring, sustained by 20 gallons of black coffee and 200 Havana cigars, the builders learned that things might not be too bad after all. Said President Coogan: the current record rate of housing starts (1,250,000 a year) would be allowed to continue for another 60 to 90 days, then would be cut back; eventually, the housing boom might...
From their seats in the upper grandstand of Manhattan's vast Polo Grounds, they faced home plate and, above it, rising over the top of the oval grandstand, a row of dingy apartment houses on Coogan's Bluff. In one of these houses, a young Negro, with a .45 pistol he had found in Central Park, was preparing for a celebration all by himself; he had saved his only bullet for July...
...Coogan's Bluff, 14-year-old Robert Peebles had climbed onto the roof of his dirty yellow apartment house, raised his .45 pistol and fired it, for the fun of it, into the air. His bullet looped swiftly over the Polo Grounds, sped toward Seat 3, Row C, Section 42. Just as Barney Doyle, his score card in hand, turned to speak to young Otto Flaig, the bullet smashed into Doyle's left temple, sank into his brain and stayed there. Doyle, suddenly bleeding, slumped forward...
Born. To Jackie Coogan, 33, Hollywood's No. 1 baby bright-eyes of the '20s (now co-owner of a small movie studio), and third wife Ann McCormack Coogan, 23, ex-nightclub singer: their first child, his second, a daughter; in Glendale, Calif. Name: Joann Dolliver. Weight...