Word: hudsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Green Mansions. The South American rain forest of William Henry Hudson's sentimental classic has been sprayed with dime-store perfume. But Audrey Hepburn is spritely enough as a child of nature. The boy is Tony Perkins...
Though Mayor Wagner has yet to block the Hudson and barricade the Thruway, the secession crisis between city and state is rapidly becoming critical. City Democrats are fed up with the paltry allotment of tax monies which Albany Republicans vote them, and are now considering the possibility of taking the city out of the state altogether. Westchester Country, lush back yard for Madison Avenue, would presumably join the new enclave...
Left-Leaning Neighbor. Quietly he set about righting some of the wrongs. "Each dollar is a soldier that does your bidding," he once said, and he watched them win or get mowed down. He turned parts of his Hudson Valley estate at Rhinebeck, N.Y. into a model farm, parts into a holiday home for invalid children. He kicked off and often led a house-to-house canvass of tenements built on his land, urged New York police to crack down on lawbreaking landlords. In later years, during Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's social-reform surge, he demolished slum tenements...
...eventful decade. Astor turned his social awareness toward politics. The focus: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Hudson Valley neighbor he had come to like while Astor was a naval officer in World War 1 and Franklin Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. With open pocketbook, with amateur's enthusiasm, Vincent Astor backed his neighbor for New York Governor, for U.S. President, took F.D.R. cruising on his $2,500,000 yacht Nourmahal after the election (TIME Cover. April 9, 1934). End result: disappointment. When F.D.R. went farther and farther to the left, Astor could not go along, and soon...
...disappointed." U.S. railmen have known for some time that the Pennsy is more anxious to merge than the Central, which has had its doubts about managing the $5.6 billion behemoth that would be formed by a merger. Meanwhile the seven smaller roads-Erie, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Reading, Delaware & Hudson, New York, Chicago & St. Louis, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western-that had huddled in October to discuss what to do in the face of a Central-Pennsy merger also dropped their own merger talks...