Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home & to Bed. Campanella got to be a catcher for two reasons: 1) he was a born athlete and 2) none of the other kids in his Philadelphia neighborhood ever wanted to catch. In his junior year at Simon Gratz High School (where he had already won letters in baseball, football, basketball and track), the Negro Bacharach Giants offered him $50 a weekend. That was the end of school as far as Campy was concerned. After he left the Bacharach Giants, he went with the Baltimore Elite Giants, backstopped in the eastern U.S., Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela and Cuba...
...clock nears 8 along the Eastern Seaboard on Tuesday night, a strange new phenomenon takes place in U.S. urban life. Business falls off in many a nightclub, theater-ticket sales are light, neighborhood movie audiences thin. Some late-hour shopkeepers post signs and close up for the night. In Manhattan, diners at Lindy's gulp their after-dinner coffee and call for their checks as they did in the days of the Roosevelt fireside chats. On big-city bar rails along the coast and in the Midwest, there is hardly room for another foot. For the next hour, wherever...
...motion picture, there may be no more than a handful of really serious students of the cinema in each audience. The larger percentage of subscribers are probably people who have recently been introduced to the treasury of foreign films and are consequently more and more discontented with the neighborhood theater's fare. The film society is bringing foreign films to communities where it is commercially unprofitable to show them: a commendable, if subversive, work...
Meanwhile, the students' wives had called police, who searched the neighborhood for the midnight visitor, but could not find...
Kingman defended the settlement house as a neighborhood agency better fitted to grapple with family problems and told Lane, "I'm not worried about your survey because I don't expect to see a single provision of it enacted before...