Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opposite Manhattan's topless towers, on Hoboken's Fifth Street Pier, the tightly phalanxed crowd was as agitated as an Agnes de Mille ballet, and every bit as chic. Before backdrops of exquisite luggage moved exquisite figures-Katharine Hepburn the actress, the Marquis and Marquise de Cuevas of the international set, and "Mile. Ciné-Revue," the Belgian beauty queen (not to mention a sprinkling of ambassadors and two Marshall Plan emissaries). Also present were Mr. Hamish MacGregor, Mr. S. Wodowski, Mrs. A. Haggerty. Many passengers received, instead of steamer baskets, food parcels for their friends...
...band of 180, together with their families, plans to entrain for Boston this morning--completely attired for the afternoon's celebration climax. From debarkation at North Station the group will march through Hub traffic to the Charles River Basin where "water taxis" are scheduled to pick up the crowd for a ride to the Newell Boat House in time for luncheon at Dillon Field House. Then follows the featured parade to the baseball diamond for the Yale game...
Letters, telephone calls, telegrams and suitors began to crowd her. Two guys named George ("George Something-I can't remember") offered themselves. One wanted to take her home right away. Dorothy wouldn't let him. The other thought better of the proposition next...
...carrying a sheaf of papers went ashore with the pilot and walked toward a line of unpainted shacks and squalid tents on-the river bank. Huskies, chained to stakes around every dwelling, set up a howl. Ragged Indian children left their baseball game on the muskeg to crowd around the strangers...
...before, Ebbets Field had been three-quarters empty. That day, it had an unusually small Saturday crowd of 12,821. In effect, the Dodgers were being boycotted...