Word: subway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Making the rounds of the dark, thunderous subway tunnels under Manhattan's Time Square one afternoon last week, a trackwalker was startled by the sight of a small boy lashed by wire to a steel stanchion. His hands and feet were bound, his mouth was stuffed with a gag, and his right shoe and stocking were off. He was moaning and tossing his tousled blond head...
...enlargement in color of the sock ballet, Fancy Free (TIME, May 22) that Choreographer Jerome Robbins and Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein did for the Ballet Theater. Here again are three young sailors footloose in Manhattan, only now one of them falls for the photograph of Miss Turnstiles, the subway's girl-of-the-month (Sono Osato), and the search for her becomes a breathless, round-the-town, round-the-clock jamboree. With the other two sailors picking off girls en route, On the Town sings and dances, joshes and handsprings its way from Central Park to the Museum...
...Secret Subway. The Scientific American led its first issue with a picture of a new railroad car, captioned: "Let any person contrast the awkward and uncouth cars of '35 with these superbly splendid long cars . . . which are calculated to avoid atmospheric resistance and contribute ease and comfort to passengers, while flying at the rate of 30 or 40 miles per hour...
...editorial experts demanded a Manhattan subway as early as 1849. When city officials paid no attention, the magazine hired a crew of workmen and attempted to dig a subway secretly under downtown Broadway, smuggling the excavated dirt out through the nearby cellars of sympathizers. A Tribune reporter nosed out the venture before it was finished...
Proposed for discussion at the meeting, next Tuesday is the suggestion, that passengers continue to use the kiosk for entrance to the subway, but that bus lines stop at some other location in the Square. A general re-routing of various traffic in and around the square will also come up for discussion...