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...shifting tides of social acceptance were charted in the 1950 edition of Manhattan's Bowery Social Register (also known as The Almanac de Skid Row), blue book of U.S. hoboes. Blue-penciled out this year by Bowery News Editor Harry Baronian: Crown Prince Bozo, for conduct unbecoming a hobo; Frisco John, for abusing people who turned him down for a handout; Buffalo John, for taking a dental bridge from the mouth of a sleeping companion. In this year: Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay, for inventing a new poetic medium called Pling Plong; Box-Car Betty, ex-hula dancer...
...Gutter. The fighting is sharpest in the streets and in city slums, in small, crowded buildings marked by neon-lighted crosses in the midst of dark Skid Rows. The army regards such positions as its most important beachheads in the Devil's territory. Captains Olive McKeown and Luella Larder, of the army's Greater New York division, command one such corps (church) at 349 Bowery. One night last week, as they had hundreds of other times, they gathered to their fold some 200 men-refugees from the saloons attracted by amplified phonograph music, drawn by hunger, curiosity...
...Skid Row and South Boston have a different problem from ours," says Thomas O'Brien, manager of the Club One Hundred. "The time to stop trouble is before it starts--at the door...
...City Editor Clem Lane knew what had happened to the two rewrite men. One sharp-eyed staffer, who asked Lane about Bird, was told that he was working on a special story. Said the staffer: "The hell he is. I just saw him sitting on a curb on Skid Row. Boy, what a bender he must...
...copies a day. Thus publicly put on the spot, police and health officials took hasty action. They shut down 56 saloons and restaurants pinpointed in the Daily News series, until they complied with the laws. But even with the heat on, Mooney and Bird found 32 drunks sprawled on Skid Row in a ten-minute walk. Police Commissioner John Prendergast threw up his hands: "What can we do? Arrest them all? The Bridewell [prison] is full." It looked as if it would take a lot more stories to stir Chicagoans into cleaning up Skid...