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Spring came late to the Boston Common last year. The weak May sun was not enough one Sunday to keep a group of intense young men and women, a scattering of skid row citizens, and a crowd of curious passersby from wearing their Sunday coats...
Last week, as the body of Brother Salesius was buried, Hoboken police arrested two Skid Row derelicts who, they said, had confessed the attack...
First reports of the accident came from the Captain of the Watch at the Portsmouth Naval Base. He said he saw the car skid out of control and plunge off the ice-covered bridge. Dodd was driving to his home at New Castle...
...expected to slow down. Early mornings and even Sundays were loud with the sound of carpenters' hammers as builders rushed new apartments to completion in the good weather. Personal income was the highest ever, unemployment at a postwar ebb. Nevertheless, at Chicago's Harbor Light on Skid Row, the Salvation Army began passing out overcoats, and drunks were jackrolled in the gutters for their clothes. The first leaves fell from the poplars and scuttered across the sidewalks. In the suburbs, there was the smell of burning leaves...
Lahr worked in radio. He played Harvey on the road. To the delight of his admirers, he did the part of Skid Johnson in a revival of the old hit, Burlesque. It ran longer than the original. He had always saved money; as an investor in stocks he also made some profits on the new bull market...