Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frank Costello was a boy. The towers of the Triborough Bridge now float in the sky just beyond their chimneys, and a snare-drum roll of traffic drifts up from the modern East River Drive. Negroes and Puerto Ricans choke the slums to west and north. But the old neighborhood is still Italian. Its sidewalk garbage cans (each with its cover chained to prevent theft), its great, voracious rats, its smells, its endless noise, are the same...
...most personal-appearance tours are sponsored by the studios, who pay the stars their regular salaries, plus expenses, to plug their latest pictures. In New York, to tout Pinky and Everybody Does It, Jeanne Grain, William Lundigan, Ethel Waters and Paul Douglas were whisked onto the stages of 23 neighborhood theaters in three evenings. Al Jolson, who only two years ago turned down $40,000 for a week's engagement in Manhattan, has been appearing without pay for months as a living trailer for Jolson Sings Again. (His incentive: 40% of the film's profits...
...planning board further suggested that the Observatory grounds be turned into a neighborhood park since the College has "no immediate need" of the land for expansion of its academic plant...
...city-mouse sighed heavily, "This used to be a good neighborhood to live in--but, no more, no more...
...only hill in the Yard, the building was picked to be the University's first observatory. A skeptical classics professor reported to a friend that "there is a caboose set upon the roof with a telescope that commands an unobstructed view of all the chambers in the neighborhood." Not all the views were unobstructed, however. A local farmer moved a barn onto his place just south of Massachusetts Avenue, neatly eclipsing the top of Blue Hill, which the observatory was using for a transit sight. The University finally had to buy a right of way in the roof and chop...