Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with one subway station, a lavatory, and an imminent city parking lot, the subterranean section of Boston Common also seems to contain a cow-tunnel. The Paulist Fathers have been building a new Information Center on Park Street. To do this they had to tear down an old building. In the sub-basement of the old building they found eight stalls. There was at first some question about whether the stalls had held cows or witches. (Several witches were hanged at the nearby Old Granary Burying Ground). In recent weeks the digging has uncovered a number of large cisterns...
...Manhattan on the night of March 12 Jesus de Galindez wound up his lecture in Hispanic-American civilization at Columbia University's Hamilton Hall, dismissed the students, started down a dark walk toward the subway station at Broadway and 116th Street and vanished. This week, despite a continuing search by New York detectives and a lookout by the cops of 13 states, Galindez was still missing...
...crannies of the magazine are filled by book reviews, undistinguished poetry, and a series of fine photographs by Walker Evans. Evans' pictures of subway faces--taken 16 years ago--are not only handsome in their own right, but complement the issue thematically because of the photographer's collaboration with Agee...
...cities and arranging all the details of a Russian excursion, an individual would find it all too easy to return from his flying tour behind the Iron Curtain with nothing more than a few snapshots ("Can you imagine, they actually let me take them!"), a few recollections (the Moscow subway, TV antennas, and slums), and a few "incidents." But ask him about the Russian people. He would probably know nothing...
...being historic, but also of meriting the merest existence. In support of his theory, the new Soviet leader has sent busy little men scurrying about Russia removing busts, portraits, biographies, and pictures of the departed Stalin. As a result, the man who once dominated every museum, bookstore, and subway station is now ceasing to have existed...