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...Mahoney's solicitude for the welfare of New York's citizens comes late, and is woefully misplaced. He has no record as a champion of the city's rights, which he has long helped bury in the dung-heap of rhetoric and red-tape which is Albany. In the present case, he has misjudged the Mayor. For the Mayor has recently learned at great expense the responsibilities of a real politician, and is not likely to support a fare-rise, even if he is worked on by whatever survives of "the boys" after last November's election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bus Stop | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...plaster facade coming away at several points disclosing the brick construction. The doorway is wide, almost square, and is hung with double scarlet curtains. These are closed and set off the six bottles of milk ranged before them. There is also another newspaper. In a corner lies an untidy heap of rags, and other miscellaneous trash...

Author: By Gerald Burns, | Title: THE PROPHET | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...atheistical sermons and got back at Mama by starting to lay young girls.'' Then there is what Williams calls "the dunghill speech," a not-for-the-squeamish passage in which Shannon relates to Hannah how he once saw the natives of an unnamed country scavenge a dung heap for undigested food. In the internal logic of the play, the speech is fully justified, for Shannon is testing Hannah and her previously stated creed that "nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Angel of the Odd | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is the secret that Actor Bobby Morse shares with the season's most appreciative audiences, as he clambers deceitfully and nimbly up the corporate slag heap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 9, 1962 | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...varsity track team's semi-annual Heptagonal tragedy. Today at Ithaca, coach Bill McCurdy's warriors will do battle with the other schools and Army and Navy; and there is no real reason for it, Crimson will probably wind up closer the botton than the top of the heap. Already, have been taken to the varsity's fall. In this week's from the Department of Athletics, positive statement McCurdy make "Army is the team to and we figure to be up in the battle but I don't know how we'll to last week's meet...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Track Squad Will Try for Heps Crown | 3/3/1962 | See Source »

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