Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other "American who is not quite an American." In six months on the story, he traveled thousands of miles through reservations in Minnesota and North and South Dakota, talked to hundreds of Indians and white officials. His published series is not only a hard-hitting indictment of the slum conditions in the paper's own backyard but a searching examination of the deep-rooted causes and effects...
...book, Hollywood Director Joe Mankiewicz was having trouble. He searched all the roads for miles around Saigon, could find not a single guard tower. Most towers have been dismantled; the rest have fallen into dilapidated ruins (Mankiewicz had to order one built). Greene's scruffy waterfront slum had also disappeared; Mankiewicz had to rebuild its shacks and dirty up the streets before he could begin filming...
...focal point of juvenile trouble in this area has been the two federal housing projects of New Towne Court and Washington Elms. Built in 1937 and 1941 respectively as slum clearance undertakings for families of low incomes, the developments are comprised of three-story brick and concrete apartment structures. In housing quality they rank better than any census tract in the city, but in human relations they show up very poorly. It is mostly the lower elements of society which tend to gravitate to these projects, and the more ambitious families are continually moving out. In addition, the projects crowd...
Somebody Up There Likes Me. Paul Newman is brilliant as the slum-dumb hero in the story of Rocky Graziano's rise from mug to pug (TIME, July...
...list is platinum blonde Kim Novak, 23, who leaped into first place from nowhere. Unknown two years ago when Columbia began building her up to replace Rita Hayworth, she has made only six pictures, shot to the top in the last three-as the beautiful sister in Picnic, the slum-spawned girl friend of The Man with the Golden Arm and the socialite wife in The Eddy Duchin Story. Her next part: the title role in Jeanne Eagels...