Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BROOKLYN WITH LOVE by Gerald Green. 305 pages. Trident...
...GARNER GREEN...
Memory is a subtle liar and often a bad writer of fiction-but it can be a marvelous storyteller. Very early in this rush of remembrance of a Brooklyn boyhood 30 years ago, it is clear that Gerald Green has let memory do all the work. His hero, Albert Abrams, is a skinny, precocious, unheroic kid who tags fearfully after a gang of asphalt Iroquois called the Raiders. The book follows Albert and his heroes-a splendidly underprivileged crew of dirty-cut young men-through a wild summer day in the Brownsville streets. The action begins with the formal curbside...
...Flanker McGee, a star for twelve years. But the biggest conjecture of all concerned Coach Lombardi, who in nine years has turned the Packers from the patsies of the N.F.L. into the most successful team in pro football history. One report had Lombardi giving up coaching but retaining his Green Bay general manager's job; another had him heading a syndicate to buy the A.F.L.'s New York Jets; still another had him giving up football altogether. "I'm exhausted," was all Vince himself would say. "I just want to take a good, long rest and give...
...Cover) No green light flared from a track-side tower; no warning whistle echoed down the line. But no trainman missed the signal. When the Supreme Court gave its approval last week to the merger of the Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads, it was clearing the track for the nation's entire rail system. It was giving railroad management permission to highball into the future...