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...Done Something Bad." The next night, after making the rounds of Skid Row bars, Speck holed up in a 90?-a-night flophouse on the West Side's Madison Street under the name of B. Brian. Around 11 o'clock, he shouted to his next-door neighbor: "You got to come and see me. I done something bad." The neighbor replied: "You go to hell." Fellow occupants heard Speck stumbling about and peered at him. Said one: "Hey! This guy's bleeding to death." Sprawled on a scabrous mattress in the 5 x 9-ft. cubicle, Speck...
...time being, says the President, "I'm going to sit steady. We don't want to put both feet on the brakes and turn us into a skid that is a recession or depression." For that reason, the President's voice is likely to be heard often over the land in the coming weeks of spring, earnestly preaching the virtues of penny pinching...
Indoor tennis has been played on a lot of surfaces. First there was wood, which picked up glare like ballroom parquet, bounced the ball sickeningly fast and with a deadly skid. Then there was canvas, which killed the reflections -but that was about all. Last week, when the $25,000 New York pro tournament opened in Madison Square Garden, a vast improvement was on hand to finally make volleying under the bright lights at least two-thirds as nice as the grass game at Forest Hills. It is a thin green rubber surface, made by U.S. Rubber, that...
Among the many domestic stories he covered, old-TIMErs best remember his interview with a wayfarer on Chicago's Skid Row (July 22, 1946), his report on the Centralia mine disaster (April 7, 1947), and the two Alger Hiss trials...
John Kennedy spoke of "patches of poverty"-and indeed, the poor tend to be concentrated. In Chicago the poor are the winos of skid row, the aged pensioners and beatniks of West Madison Street and the hillbillies of the "uptown area," a middle-class neighborhood only a decade ago. Virtually every city has its Negro slums: Detroit's Brewster, Chicago's West Garfield Park, Las Vegas' West Side and Los Angeles' now notorious Watts. The rural poor cluster in the picturesque Appalachians and the Ozarks, on the Louisiana-Texas coastal plain, in the southern Piedmont...