Word: ridgewood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transition from carefree vacationer to record-breaking competitor was no romp in the surf. Ever since Carin decided to become a champion she has submitted to an endless grind. In the winter she works out five days a week in the Y.M.-Y.W.C.A. pool near her Ridgewood home. Once a week she travels to Manhattan for professional training at the Women's Swimming Association. When the weather warms up, she spends every day at Ridgewood's outdoor municipal pool, swims a mile morning and evening when the pool is uncrowded. "Afternoons," says Carin, "I put on my plaid...
...Touch. White's decisive action impressed most people in the railroad business, who had known him as a straight-talking but reserved individual with a solid record of railroading behind him. The son of Dutch immigrants, he started out as an Erie Railroad clerk when he left the Ridgewood, N.J. high school, became a division superintendent by the time he was 30. Eleven years later, in 1938, the Virginian Railway hired him away and made him a vice president. In 1941 he moved into the presidency of the ailing Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, cut down heavy overhead costs...
RICHARD A. MIETZELFELD Ridgewood...
...also the picture painted by a dignified, stern-looking man with white hair and a white goatee-Frederick Remington, 81, retired employee of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., father of the man on trial. Son William, he said, had served as an acolyte at the family's Ridgewood, NJ. church. The elder Remington, a staunch Republican, did not agree with his son's "idea of New Dealism...he was radical in that respect." But Frederick Remington was confident that his son had never been a member of the Communist Party...
Because its commuter lines into New York City are losing money, the Erie Railroad Co. put on a one-cent sale this week, to boost traffic in the non-rush hour periods. The Erie, which brings in 28,000 commuters a day from such towns as Hohokus and Ridgewood, N.J., started selling a round-trip fare to New York on two of its lines (from any station up to 88 miles out) for 1? more than a one-way ticket. The round trip must be completed on week days between 10 a.m. one day and 2 a.m. the next...