Word: newark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head while his landing boat was pulling into the Inchon beachhead, and a sudden swerve sent a pretty young columnist flying into his lap. The somewhat embarrassed Davies recovered his equilibrium, however, and went on to become one of the top war correspondents, covering the Pacific campaign for the Newark Evening News...
...reporter, and wangled a job drawing editorial cartoons for another. This made a total of seven jobs at once, "but I was still making less than Louise (his future wife) who was writing for a large city newspaper." In 1936 he got his job with the Newark Evening News and decided that it was about time for him to get married--since he was finally making more money than Louise...
Helping to expose the gambling machines that were milking Newark in the early 40's was exciting: "I had to ride back and forth on the train, look for men who were reading scratch sheets, and try to find out from them where the gamblers operated. I followed a heavy bettor to the gaming house, counted how many times he rang the bell, and ten minutes later did the same. After playing craps for a while on the newspaper's money, I left by telling them an ulcer was acting up. But all this isn't unusual. Most reporters...
...Matter of Course. In Newark, the court ruled out the plea for alimony in Mrs. Anna Herkaler's separation suit after it learned that the original quarrel began when she served her husband a bowl of soup made from his pet pigeons...
...Macy's, the department-store chain, opened because Weil was the grandson of Isidor Straus, one of the original owners. But Weil rose rapidly on his own merits. By 32, he had been propelled from a sales clerk to president of Bamberger's, Macy's Newark (N.J.) store. In 1949, at the age of 42, he became president of Macy's in Manhattan, the world's largest department store...