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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary of State Thomas J. Curran, Republican leader of Manhattan, said that he got $10,000 for introducing two lawyers who wanted to negotiate the purchase of the Yonkers track site. From another source, whose connections were never fully explained, Curran's wife got 500 shares of Yonkers stock. "I told him [the donor] not to," said Curran, "and I didn't think he would." Mrs. Curran hesitated for almost two years, however, before returning the stock just as the investigating commission was set up. Among other freeloading Republicans...
Author Williams introduces his hero right in the maternity ward. A calving elephant has an "auntie" or sister elephant who helps pick a lying-in spot: Bandoola's mother and auntie picked a site near a river bend with a giant tree for shade and seven-foot elephant grass for fodder. The night before Bandoola was born, the two elephants trampled the grass round the tree till they flattened an area the size of a circus ring...
...association had been strictly a men's organization, but many women also admired Roosevelt. Their interest resulted in the formation of a Women's Roosevelt Memorial Association dedicated to restoring the old Roosevelt home in New York. Despite setbacks--such as the presence of a cleaning emporium on the site of the old home and a continual shortage of money--the women, with $150,000 in aid from the men completed the shrine in 1922. The house itself is a replica of the old one, constructed, with the advice of Roosevelt's younger sister Corinne, complete down to wallpaper, draperies...
Before his emasculation, George Jorgensen called himself a casualty of the "no man's land of sex." Afterward, he renamed himself Christine and took on women's clothes and ways. Last week in Copenhagen, the site of Christine's transformation, another fugitive U.S. male made his way into the women's lines. His name: Charles McLeod, 28, henceforth to be known as Charlotte...
...built in Greater Miami since the war than in all the rest of the U.S. Last week, in the $200.000 Miami Beach house where Harvey Firestone once wintered, building contractors pored over plans to build the city's biggest hotel, the $11 million, 554-room Fontainebleau. on the site...