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First came the murder of Kitty Genovese in the predawn darkness of the quiet, middle-class community of Kew Gardens. The murderer was a lunatic who had never seen her before. It took 35 minutes; the killer left and returned three times to stab her again and again while Kitty Genovese staggered and screamed and dragged herself along the street. The interesting thing about it was that the police established that at least 37 neighbors, roused out of bed by Kitty's screams, had stared out their dark windows at one time or another, but none of them...
Lindner's paintings are violently theatrical; bathed in stagelight, they proffer biting vignettes of the modern world. Each character is an island: giant kew-pie-doll children with pasty faces, strolling tradesmen stolidly strutting with their canes, spreading ladies slickly fitted into a colorful armor of corsets. Lindner's pictorial poseurs hobnob in a funhouse atmosphere where floors that seem to slant up actually slide down and ripple-mirrors reflect limbs as if swollen with elephantiasis...
...Kew, Victoria, Australia...
...secretary was Robert V. Holton, of Leverett House and Minn. James I. K. Knapp '64, of House and Kew Gardens, N.Y., treasurer...
...estate men, prodded by President Kennedy, offered to drop color bars in their luxury-apartment buildings. The six: Builders Morris Cafritz, Frank Luchs, Norman and Leo Bernstein, Mark Winkler and Louis Richman. African diplomats, said Norman Bernstein, would be wel come at three of his "restricted"' apartment complexes: Kew Gardens in Georgetown, Cathedral Mansions on Connecticut Avenue, and Connecticut Gardens in northwest Washington...