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...December 1917 Private McGonegal left Hoboken with 12,500 others aboard the Leviathan, seabound on her maiden voyage as a troop transport under the American flag...
Pietro di Donate, handsome 32-year-old bricklayer-turned-novelist (Christ in Concrete), just married in Manhattan by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, told reporters he was planning a Hoboken honeymoon. When asked what his professional plans were, Pietro a longtime breadwinner for seven orphaned brothers & sisters and more recently a conscientious objector, replied: "I don't know. I'm too sophisticated to go back to bricklaying and I'm too confused to return to writing...
...soprano at Manhattan's fashionable St. Thomas Church, later had one year of business administration at Cornell, a spell working for his father. He tried cowpunching in New Mexico, stoking coal on a tramp steamer, shooting professional pool. On March 11, 1914, he eloped from Manhattan to Hoboken with Alma Muller and "she's never left...
...slowly rising temperatures. No snow or rain. Tonight not so cold. No precipitation.' Who asked them if there would be snow or rain? Who asked about precipitation? No one. They have begun anticipating. . . . Soon they will be sending stories out saying that there will be no sun in Hoboken, or no daylight in Canarsie...
...born in 1864 in Hoboken, N.J. Said Stieglitz last week: "What is important is that I was conceived April 1, 1863." Seven years later his father, a successful wool merchant, moved the family to Manhattan. When Alfred was 17 Papa Stieglitz packed him off to Germany to become an engineer. In Berlin young Alfred fell for photography...