Word: downtowners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When he realized that I didn't know Boston," Gurland explained, "he tried to instruct me downtown. I must have driven for over 45 minutes, with that gun nudging me all the time...
...about contemporary U.S. artists. The pioneering Whitney Museum, four miles away in Greenwich Village, specializes in the contemporary. It seemed a good idea for the two museums to get together, and for the past five years they had been planning to do it: the Whitney was to quit its downtown quarters, move into a new wing at ,he well-heeled Metropolitan. But last week the deal was called off. Both sides issued explanations...
Random Harvest. In Tupelo, Miss., when shiny new garbage containers were installed in the downtown business district, garbage collectors had a hard day sorting the rubbish from the outgoing mail...
Ropes & Gallows. By noon factories and shops had closed, trains stopped running. With an eye to a good turnout, someone had mobilized government trucks to haul workers to downtown B.A. from the outlying industrial districts. Many a worker, by the time he reached the Plaza de Mayo, had also been equipped with a sign bearing a Peronista slogan. Others carried loops of rope, or miniature gallows-a meaningful reminder of the bitter speech at Santa Fé in which Perón talked of hanging his enemies (TIME, Sept...
Jeez! Jeez! Across the U.S. last week, the seesaw race had baseball fans quivering. Cleveland motorists had to wait for their gasoline until absent-minded attendants finished listening to another play on their radios; business in downtown movie houses slumped 25%. In Boston, scalpers asked and got as much as $30 for a pair of tickets. One New Yorker, his nose buried in the box scores, tripped over a fire hydrant and banged his head hard enough to need stitches...