Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grade A Restitution. In his cheap little flat above a saloon in suburban Floral Park, L.I., "grey, 57-year-old Bertram Campbell happily posed for pictures with his happy family. Bertram Campbell was not ready to forgive everything. Said he: "It was Mr. Dewey's big clean-up campaign. All he wanted was a record of convictions...
Still standing near the Emperor's park were the condescendingly quaint log houses of the Russian Colony which Frederick William III had built for his Russian musicians. Now Red Army troops were quartered in the houses. Near by was the road where 30-year-old John Quincy Adams, traveling to take up his post as first...
...parties, La Farge would tell himself over & over, "Well, Oliver, you certainly have nice friends." But for all the call of the wild Southwest and the high-jinks of Mardi-Gras, the Groton Boy was still alive. When Laughing Boy hit the jackpot, Oliver bee-lined it for a Park Avenue apartment and all the trimmings...
...baseball's best hitter, Waterloo is spelled Chicago. Tommy Holmes has found it hard to buy a hit at Wrigley Field all season, and last week his jinx park stopped him again-after he had hit safely in 37 straight games to bust Rogers Hornsby's modern National League record of 33. (Anyhow, the Boston Braves's roly-poly, 180-lb. right fielder had modestly figured Wee Willie Keeler's ancient 44-game mark as his goal, and had not seriously hoped that his luck would hang around until he caught Joe DiMaggio's American...
While window dressers wash down the mannequins in the department stores, Weegee shows the city asleep-in gutters, on fire escapes and park benches, six in a parked car. He photographs the dreamy abstracted faces watching the ambulance doctors at work. He catches the mayor off-guard, a Negro mother and daughter watching a fire from which another daughter and her baby cannot escape, Bowery barflies taking their ease, a shabby woman staring at operagoing finery (see cuts...