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Gould writes of the excitement of growing up in New York City during its reign of baseball glory. "The fifties were the greatest baseball years that any single city ever experienced. We had three great teams and seven subway Series in the 10 years between 1947 and 1956," he said...
...unemployment. James' interview with a pub manager revealed that he knew "bugger all" about the wine trade, and he flunked the psychological test for guards in the London subway. But he worked briefly and erratically as a librarian, factory hand, statistician and publisher's assistant. His digs were more makeshift than his jobs and included, besides a succession of repressive rooming houses, a converted coal barge with a toilet that tended to fill up with the bilges and a paper mattress wrapper on the floor of somebody else's room. One of his roosts was so tiny that the chief...
...weeks ago, a jury considering charges under the much publicized handgun ban in Oak Park, Ill., acquitted a frequently robbed gas-station owner who used a pistol to shoot at armed thieves as they fled. Earlier this year a New York City judge dismissed weapon-possession charges against a subway token clerk who had killed a mugger with an unlicensed...
...friend evokes an image that captures Gordon's energy: "Jennifer was great at dealing with the subway in Mexico this summer. The Mexico City subways are tremendously overcrowded, but tiny as she is, she was able to squeeze through and always get out first...
...time, and then their heads appeared over the top of the wall to glare at me at point-blank range," said Haring. "I tell you, it was a bit scary." Not a comment to be taken lightly from someone who got his start painting in the New York City subway system...