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Shrieking cheers of gratitude for their benefactor, 25,000 yelping children and their mothers clambered and danced through the meadows of Manhattan's summer-striped Central Park. It was a grand picnic-the 22nd annual June Walk of the Monongahela Club. Round-faced, genial James J. Hines eased a piggybacking child from his shoulders, doffed his straw boater, wiped the sweat from his face and said proudly: "Kids who came to the first of these things are voters now. They're not all voting my district, but they're voting somewhere...
Covering Pittsburgh, TIME staffers have been regular visitors. But now with Connery, a reporter of inexhaustible energy and curiosity in our newest bureau, we take up residence in the booming city at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela...
...activity there. Dave's mother, Mary Kelly McDonald, was the daughter of an officer of the Sons of Vulcan, an early union for iron craftsmen. Both her brothers were union men. After a brief, unsuccessful interlude of trying to run a saloon on the south side of the Monongahela River, the elder McDonald finally went into the Jones & Laughlin rolling mill as a guide setter. One day in 1915 a piece of hot steel sliding through the rollers sheared off accidentally. A hot, jagged end whipped through his left leg, put him in bed for ten months. When...
PITTSBURGH: Rebuilt Golden Triangle, at junction of Allegheny (below) and Monongahela Rivers, replaced slum site of old shacks and railroad yards with park and airy buildings. part of an answer to a problem that has plagued most American cities with increasing insistency since the end of World War II. While suburbs have boomed, the business and residential hearts of cities have choked and decayed. Downtown areas, crowded with traffic, have withered and become blighted, cost more in municipal services (while returning less in taxes) and threatened cities with economic strangulation...
Except for a few (e.g. The Monongahela, Everglades), the books have seldom risen above the level of scrappy regional history. When New Mexican Novelist Paul Horgan began to do his book on the Rio Grande, it was meant to be one of the series. But in the end, the publishers decided not to include his book, for it towers above the others as a Prescott towers above cracker-barrel chroniclers. Great River is not only a fine job of historical research. It fuses the imagination of a good novelist (The Fault of Angels) with a remarkable sense of a region...