Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with them, in their reports, say the kids have a genuine affection for them and the system. The house in Roxbury is not big enough nor the leaders numerous enough to take care of the crowd, says one leader. Another claims his group is the only one in the neighborhood that has not caused any trouble...
...problems recurring constantly at Cambridge that just don't exist in Tigertown. Their first solution is simple: the Undergraduate Regulations of Princeton's Official Register, General Regulations, section 12, states, "No undergraduate shall, while college is in session, maintain or operate a motor vehicle in Princeton or in the neighborhood thereof . . . without the consent of the Dean of his College...
Died. John Sloan, 80, dean of U.S. artists; of cancer; in Hanover, N.H. When he began painting in the 1900s, Sloan's earthy Manhattan neighborhood scenes were thought coarse and ugly. He was placed by the fussier critics in the "Ash Can School," did not sell a painting until he was 49. Today his works hang in the best museums, and for their richness in both color and local color (McSorley's Bar; The City from Greenwich Village) they rank with the best paintings ever done in the U.S. A garrulous little man with a long, bony face...
With all the fanfare of a neighborhood block party, Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. this week threw open its doors to "Italy-in-Macy's, U.S.A.," a million-dollar sale of Italian imports spread out over an entire floor of its New York store. More than 25,000 people crowded into the show the first afternoon, were waited on by clerks decked out in Italian costumes, watched Italian craftsmen blowing glass, tooling leather, making ceramics. Other exhibits: a full-size Venetian gondola, models of Columbus' flagship, a reproduction of St. Peter's Church...
...People Against O'Hara (MGM) deals with dipsomania and murder against the background of Manhattan's Fulton fish market. Lawyer Spencer Tracy, withdrawn from criminal practice because he was becoming involved emotionally in the struggle for clients' lives, reluctantly agrees to defend a neighborhood boy accused of murder. As the pressures mount, Tracy places more & more reliance on alcohol, ineptly bribes a state's witness, and fumbles his attempt to pin the crime on Waterfront Boss Eduardo Cianneili...