Word: neighborhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into Manhattan, thus avoiding an official greeting by Acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, the backslid Democrat. Instead, his private car, the Ferdinand Magellan, crossed Manhattan Island underground during the night and was sidetracked at Belmont Race Track. At 6:45 the President went out for a fast walk through the neighborhood. He looked rested and relaxed when in mid-morning a 113-motorcycle police escort led him to Flushing Meadow...
...home that Mrs. Fairless can buy for as little as 3½? a pound ... If you lived among the cliff dwellers of New York City, and if you wanted a little potting soil to put around your geranium plants on your window sill, you could buy it at your neighborhood seed store for 7? a pound . . . Steel is literally cheaper than dirt...
...dollar bills on ordinary bond paper, using a tiny hand press which he affectionately called his rich Cousin Henry. He tried to make sure that no storekeeper would be stuck with his handmade currency more than once, and he spent the money, mainly, to entertain an adoring army of neighborhood children. By the time he was convicted, 880 had so captivated the Secret Service that it got him off with one of the lightest counterfeiting sentences on record...
...York, Columbia is probably the most collegiate. The College, heart of the University, sits on a hill in the northern sector of Manhattan called Morningside Heights. A good residential community surrounds the college area. It complements the college, and the college compliments it, to form a pleasantly genteeel neighborhood. In this respect the Columbia undergraduate has an advantage over other young scholars in the city. But it is city nonetheless and Columbia in the last decades has never had the sense of community possessed by other members of the Ivy League...
...evidence that the motion picture has much effect upon the behavior of children. When a healthy high-school boy chooses to spend three hours on a sunny Saturday in a world of make-believe, the trouble is not with the motion picture but in the quality of home and neighborhood life...