Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...smoke bomb was tossed through the front door of the new Frederick Douglass Bookstore at 49 Mass Ave. in Boston between 2 and 2:30 a.m. yesterday...
After the picketing Saturday, Teixeira requested police protection because he feared violence. The demonstrators were members of the American Veterans Committee, Boston Local #1. They did not protest Teixeira's communism per so, but objected to the association of Frederick Douglass--"a genuine American here"--with a communist bookstore...
...Beyond Frederick. Shapp, an engineer by training, parlayed a $500 investment into a fortune exceeding $10 million with a Philadelphia-based electronics firm that bears his middle name. Though he had long hankered to get into politics, the keepers of the Keystone State's Democratic machine-not unlike the G.O.P. bosses in John O'Hara's Ten North Frederick-wanted Milt's money more than they wanted Milt. To many party leaders, Shapp seemed an egotistical buffoon. There was also the fact that he was born Milton Shapiro-and no Jew had ever run for Pennsylvania...
...Hara sequel to the Frederick standoff was that Shapp decided to go it alone-with $1,400,000 of his own money. In May, he scored a triumphal 50,000-vote primary upset over the Democrats' machine-backed candidate, and badly shook both parties. While the Republicans tried feverishly to anticipate Shapp's strategy, Democratic bigwigs belatedly sought to win the parvenu's allegiance. At a banquet in Harrisburg, ex-Governor David Lawrence, longtime Democratic kingmaker, allowed: "Crow should have been the main dish. I must admit I am eating mine." Shapp thereupon served him another portion...
...prose, particularly the fiction, is disappointing. Gregory Dalton's "The Beard Lady," told in a kind of backdoor Joyce via Sebastian Dangerfield, has the feel of a lengthy anecdote with a flat punchline; Frederick Field's more successful story wears on into tedium, and is perplexingly structured...