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...Realist styles itself "the fire hydrant of the underdog," and runs satiric articles on current affairs. The issue in question contained an article by George Lincoln Rockwell, commander of the American Nazi Party, a number of jokes and cartoons, many directed against Roman Catholics, and some off-color humor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Policeman' Orders Nini's Corner Store Not to Sell 'Realist' | 2/13/1963 | See Source »

Violators must now pay $5 for each offense when parking within ten feet of a hydrant, within 20 feet of an intersection, or within the properly defined limits of a bus stop. For all other offenses (parking overtime at a meter, etc.), offenders must pay $1, $2, $3, $4, and $5 respectively for the first five violaitons. Thereafter, the fine is $5 for every offense...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: City Passes Parking Ordinance; DeGuglielmo Scores Consultants | 5/23/1961 | See Source »

...bumpers before he gets behind the wheel (Rolls owners may buy a pair of the pads at $75). And since it would never do to leave a pet inside a Rolls during dinner, Restaurateur Peter Fairchild also provides three dog kennels fitted with drains and red fire hydrant, and offers "succulent ground sirloin that will be served gratuitously by our attendant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restaurants: The Foam Rubber Bumpers | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...show's best turn was its first. An off-camera voice, bad, sang Mack the Knife in German. Sound waves waggled on an oscilloscope. A succession of 10-sec. sight gags interrupted the picture: water leaked from an oil painting of the ocean; a fire hydrant squirted at a dog. Mackie Messer wavered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: See the Giant Clams | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...arrived, wearing blue jeans and a checked black-and-red lumberjacking shirt with black patches at the elbows. With him were two other shabbily dressed Beatniks. One was Ginsberg's intimate friend, a mental-hospital attendant named Peter Orlovsky, 25, who writes poetry (I talk to the fire hydrant, asking: "Do you have bigger tears than I do?"); the other was Gregory Corso, 28, a shaggy, dark little man who boasts that he has never combed his hair-and never gets an argument. Corso, also a poet, will be remembered for his lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Fried Shoes | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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