Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Yom Kippur, $700,000. The idyl ended when the family moved to New York, and Bernie huddled with his brothers against the apartment chimney in the raw Northern winter and felt the first stings of anti-Semitism in neighborhood street fights. He dreamed of going to Yale, but Mamma Baruch would not hear of his leaving home, so he trudged 40 blocks a day each way to New York's City College. Ever mindful of the phrenologist's prophecy, his mother steered him toward the business world, and after his graduation in 1891 he found himself...
...little white Methodist church at Normandie Avenue and 38th Street in Los Angeles is grimed and paint-peeled on the outside, dusty and scuffed within. For years the neighborhood, none too prosperous to begin with, has been sliding downhill: property values dropped, and, taking advantage of low rents, Negro families moved in until they now make up about 60% of the area's population...
Faced with a congregation numbering zero. Pastor Higgins rounded up 15 volunteers, canvassed the neighborhood with flyers proclaiming: "Look what God has done! He has placed a new voice in the community!!!" One white woman called 125 friends and urged them to come for the next four weeks, "to establish a pattern for the congregation." Last week
...Cole lives handsomely with his wife Marie and two daughters in an $85,000, English-style home in Los Angeles' posh Hancock Park. (When a lawyer for nearby property owners told him bluntly in 1948 that "we don't want any undesirable people coming into this neighborhood," he replied: "Neither do I. If I see anybody undesirable coming in here, I'll be the first to complain.") Though polished and well-mannered, he has a flair for the astringent crack. When critics complained that he had deserted pure jazz for sentimental corn, he said: "Critics...
...last week, in the midst of the electoral heat when Hamid himself was having lunch in Tripoli, a band of prominent Franjiehs and Moawads journeyed from Zghorta to the nearby little village of Miziyara to attend memorial services for a neighborhood sheik. The Karams were invited, but decided not to go. As a man of the cloth, Simaan Dweihi was also present. As the various churchmen and family elders made their way toward the little parish church of Our Lady of Miziyara, their henchmen gathered in a nearby café, eying each other with the distrust common to the district...