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Because the Cambridge Park Board recently rejected their proposals, a group of Harvard students and Cambridge boys were forced to drop for this spring their plans for turning an East Cambridge vacant lot into a playground for 235 children...
Various boys' "gangs" who were approached about the project offered hearty support, and it was understood that they would help in working out the plans for the playground, which was to include a baseball field, volleyball and basketball courts, and horseshoe pits...
Those were a few. There had been many another in the past five years. Sullivan County, summer playground of many New York City mobsters, became a dumping ground for corpses. Organized crime had gone underground, but it went on. That was the situation when William O'Dwyer became district attorney for Kings County last January...
...prepare for it by getting drunk every night." At present he is angling for a commercial radio tie-up to let the U. S. know how the honeymooners are doing daily. After the honeymoon season, the city of Tampa is interested in taking over the island for a tourist playground. One unromantic newspaper photographer visited Honeymoon Isle last week and wryly observed: "Not a thing on the island but huts, soldier crabs and pelicans. It's going to be tough if they don't know how to play cards...
Around 1910-when basketball began to bounce baseball out of the gymnasium-the Playground Society of America hauled indoor baseball outdoors as a good game for kids, added a tenth player (a rover). During the Depression, the U. S. army of unemployed, invading the nation's public parks, played playground ball (or kitten-ball, mushball, diamond ball-depending on the locality). As they dribbled back to work, they took their new pastime with them. Commercially sponsored teams popped up everywhere. Playground ball, renamed softball, became the No. 1 after-work diversion (as player or spectator) for U. S. office...