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...still keeps many features of its far from gay '90s. The uninspired yellow-brick Alliance building is one (not so the spacious playground near by). There, too, are the buildings of the leading U.S. Yiddish newspapers (The Jewish Daily Forward, The Jewish Day), a Hebrew teachers' seminary, Jankowitz' Yiddish Bookshop, the Hebrew National Kosher Sausage Co., and a fading group of bearded oldsters purchasing from street vendors outsize pretzels and freshly baked yams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 50 Years Off the Bowery | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

Near Brownstown, Ind. last fortnight Harold Jankowitz, 20, CCC worker, chewed the head off a blacksnake for $1. Said he: "I didn't really bite its head off. I mostly pulled it off. The snake was too tough." Worker Jankowitz added the $1 to a fund with which he hopes to pay for an eye operation so he may take a West Point entrance examination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 3, 1935 | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

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