Word: midtown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Four city blocks in midtown Los Angeles...
...hours hauling it in & out of Central Park-happily waving his bill of sale after police hauled him off to the station. Later, Troy and a few good friends equipped themselves with work clothes, picks, shovels and roadblocks, spent an industrious evening digging a ten-foot hole in a midtown Manhattan street without being caught. Another time he attached an artificial hand to his sleeve, took a trip through the Holland Tunnel. After fastening his toll ticket between the plaster fingers, he whizzed by the collection station, left both ticket and hand in the grasp of a horrified attendant...
...Manhattan, Zsa Zsa's older sister Maqda Gabor was having a quarrel with her insurance company. She was having trouble collecting a claim of $17,250 to cover assorted minks and gems stolen from her midtown apartment last winter. The policy would never have been written in the first place, said the company, if it had known all the facts. Magda is a well-known person, moving in highly publicized circles, and is therefore a "target risk," which neither she nor the insurance agent had bothered to mention...
...most popular papers is Boston's unique "Midtown Journal," which confines itself to crimes of all sorts, and such human-interest matter as gory murders, divorces, and all forms of bedroom farces that and up in court. It's sold out every...
...famed China Doll nightclub off Broadway was a good spot: "Two or three peddlers hang around there . . . on a quiet basis." So was Hanson's drugstore at 51st Street and Seventh Avenue in midtown Manhattan; so was the Garden Cafeteria across from Madison Square Garden. "You just walk in ... get a cup of coffee . . . put your money down, pick up the drugs and leave . . ." In a B-G Coffee Shop ". . . it's more of a high-class type of addict ... Cocaine buyers hang around there...