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...network television contract to showcase the series--too many Colorado-Washington games took care of that long ago. So, the league will peddle the games to independent stations (like Boston's channel 38), and daring network affiliates that are willing to forfeit a sitcom or two to show this interborough fracas...
...third-generation" weapon; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A leading Roman Catholic layman knighted twice by the church and father of eleven children, Murray was the son of a millionaire engineering magnate, held 200 electrical and welding patents, was receiver for New York City's bankrupt Interborough Rapid Transit Co. for eight years, headed the Murray Manufacturing Co. from 1939 until he joined...
Career: Murray has been active in manufacturing and public utilities and served for eight years as receiver of New York's Interborough Rapid Transit system...
Trio, three more W. Somerset Maugham short stories, is keeping the Sutton in business, at 57th and Second. Another English feature is the witty Last Holiday, starring Alec Guinness, "the best actor of 1950." The Interborough Rapid Transit stops a stone's throw from the Ascot at 183rd and Grand Concourse in the Bronx...
...years most New Yorkers have agreed on a program for bettering the lot of the subway sardine: 1) unification of the city's three systems (Interborough Rapid Transit. Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit, the city-owned Independent) under municipal ownership & operation; 2) maintenance of the 5? fare; 3) more subways to relieve congestion. But the history of Unification reads like a machine-age edition of Pilgrim's Progress. The city had to find ways & means of setting aside contracts with IRT and BMT (good until 1967, 1969), raising money enough to buy out private interests. After nearly 20 years...