Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years since James W. Blake composed his hurdy-gurdy verses, New York City's population has more than doubled. Today 7,795,471 New Yorkers and 370,000 commuters trip fantastically over one another on sidewalks and subway platforms, particularly in the morning and evening rush hours. Last week, climaxing a two-year house-by-house survey, the City Planning Commission brought forth a hardheaded proposal: the only way to save New York from death by overcrowding is to regulate the use of residential buildings so that no more than 10,940,000 people can ever live...
...kind of ineffable wonder, or carving an emotional tracery under the spotlights-are as familiar in the world's famed theaters and nightclubs and on U.S. TV as his husky voice. Instead of riding the IRT, Belafonte now has his choice of two Mercedes-Benzes; to the subway girl, who was his first wife, he was able to give a $10,000 platinum bracelet as a "divorce present" when their marriage broke up in 1957. Each of the seven albums he has recorded (for RCA Victor) has sold more than 200,000 copies, and one (Belafonte Sings...
Hash &. Eggs. Harry and his wife moved into a tiny $55-a-month apartment in Harlem with Marguerite's mother, lived for the first few months on Marguerite's salary as a teacher at Bethany Day Nursery. Marguerite remembers Harry in those days-the subway-riding days -as "a big, playful animal." A friend. Painter Matthew Feinman, remembers that he was seething with racial feeling. The two of them played chess, and when they were arranging the chessmen, Harry used to say: "I'm taking the black ones, man, because they're better than the white...
...cartoon because of the supremacy of the words over the drawing. Using pared sticks (the kind that restaurants send out to stir coffee) as pens, he usually gets his drawing right the first try. But he has rewritten captions as many as 15 times, often working on the subway while riding from his bachelor apartment in Brooklyn Heights under the East River to Manhattan...
...Interest. In London, Albert Loria, a senior partner in a banking firm, was fined ?3 for defacing an outdated ticket to avoid paying a threepenny subway fare...