Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paramount film, She Done Him Wrong; then RKO did a picture called Frankie & Johnnie. Frankie Baker complained that everybody but her was making money out of her song. Her travels ended in Portland, Ore., where for the past few years she lived on relief in a ramshackle frame house. Neighborhood kids sang her song outside her window. Last week, an embittered 75, Frankie died. ¶ Theola Barton is a 15-year-old Californian who likes to go to school in pin curls. Last March the principal of her school in Antioch sent her home to take out the pins. Theola...
...THRILL to a New Kind of Love-BIGGER than Oh No, Onan . . . BOLDER than Too Far, Mrs. Potiphar . . . BETTER than I was a Sodomite for the FBI. Next week at your neighborhood theater-Mr. Lot Goes to Town...
...Philip's is a large, solid-looking brick church which stands, jammed close between neighboring houses, on the edge of a slum neighborhood. All but a handful of its 3,707 members are Negroes, about 60% of British West Indies (and thus Anglican) stock. There is nothing dramatic about St. Philip's rise to first place; its growth has been solid and steady under the rectorship of the Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop...
Stuempfig shuns modern experiments, keeps a reproduction of a Corot in his studio, and constantly combs his own neighborhood for moving, nostalgic subjects. Asked why his landscapes so often look sad, he replies: "Maybe it's because even the landscape isn't safe any more, what with these new turnpikes and everything...
When Pastor Anderson went to the hospital, Garden City South roused itself in neighborliness. The neighbor who did most to get the others started was Mrs. Thomas Skelly, a Roman Catholic. She organized a committee to canvass the neighborhood. A "Pastor Anderson Fund" was established at St. Andrew's. West Hempstead and Garden City Catholics and Jews pitched in along with Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Congregationalists and others. Though Mrs. Anderson soon got a teaching job nearby, St. Andrew's handed her five months of her husband's salary, and let her have the parsonage rent-free...