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Frank Craven knows the urchins around the corner of Forsyth and Delancey Streets in Manhattan's lower East Side. He watches one of them grow into a scrappy little pug (James Cagney) who almost wins the world's championship, another become a sultry, sirenic dancer (Ann Sheridan), another a sneering gangster named Googi (Elia Kazan),still another a willowy, clean-cut composer (Arthur Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 7, 1940 | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...yelled Heil, Hitler! in Delancey Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Just go years ago, he said, an ambitious youngster fresh from Ireland named Andrew Charles opened a plain grocery store on the corner of Orchard and Delancey Streets, Manhattan. His cousin George soon joined him. In the late 505 the pair moved way uptown (22nd Street) to cater to the carriage trade. As the city grew, George urged moving again; Andrew wanted to stay near Gramercy Park. George moved, Andrew stayed. George proved the wiser, for the very year he set up on 43rd Street, Grand Central Station moved right across the street, and his store flourished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Bon Voyage | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Dean was the most joyous of the players. As Adams fouled out in the ninth to retire the Reds with three men on. Dean rushed to Delancey to obtain the final ball as a souvenir, shook his hand, shouting, Well, Bill, we play in the World Series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salients in the Day's News | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...DEATH WISH-Elisabeth Sanxay Holding-Dodd, Mead ($2). Long Island society, his neighbors and his rich wife are too much for poor, ponderous Delancey. Had it not been for the calm young guest next door, he might have been convicted of two murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Jan. 29, 1934 | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

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