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...night that shadows Harlem's filth and fear, two 1960 Ford station wagons raced north on the New York State Thruway toward Tarrytown and the comfortable hilltop home of James Arthur Vaus Jr., an ex-convict once known as a wiretapper for West Coast Gangster Mickey Cohen. From the 'cars sprang a group of boys representing two rival East Harlem street gangs, the Young Conceiteds and the Untouchables. They swaggered to the front door, where waited Vaus, 41, and his first lieutenant, a Puerto Rican named Piri Thomas. 32. who once served six years for shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Reaching the Unreachables | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...meeting Billy Graham, turned evangelist himself, wrote a moderately successful book titled Why I Quit Syndicated Crime. His new vocation took him to East Harlem, where he became convinced that he could turn his talents to more practical purpose than pulpitry. Moving his family from the West Coast to Tarrytown, Vaus rounded up some 400 reform-minded financial supporters, set up Y.D.I. for boys in a Harlem front-store room. Around the corner he set up a girls' branch, fitted it out with hair dryers and other beauty parlor equipment, hired a woman to supervise activities there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Reaching the Unreachables | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...Harcourt, Brace & Co., one of the largest publishers of high school texts with sales of $17 million, announced plans to merge with World Book Co. of Tarrytown, N.Y., which publishes elementary school texts (1959 sales: $10 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLISHING: The Scholarly Dollar | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

Keen Smell. To find the products that General Foods should sell, the company runs the biggest private food-research laboratory in the U.S. on a 55-acre site at Tarrytown, N.Y., also keeps 155 women busy in a mammoth test kitchen in suburban White Plains. The kitchens are run by Vice President Ellen-Ann Dunham, a bright and forceful woman of 47, who likes to cook from scratch. Both lab and kitchen are filled with people who have been selected for their keen sense of taste and smell, and-more important-their ability to describe differences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Just Heat & Serve | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...Laureldale, Pa. 74 Craig, John C. Jr. '62 20 6:0 190 Tulsa, Okla. 69 Loftus, Gary M. '61 19 5:9 179 E. Cleveland, Ohio 60 Norton, Gerald P. '61 19 5:11 180 Baldwin, N.Y. 67 Shaughnessy, Stanley '60 21 6:0 188 N. Tarrytown, N.Y. 61 Tobriner, Matthew W. '61 19 6:0 195 Washington, D.C. 62 Weihenmayer, E.A. III '62 19 6:0 188 Jenkintown, Pa. CENTERS 56 Colyer, John H. '62 19 6:1 180 Oneonta, N.Y. 57 Eckfeldt, Richard H. '61 20 6:1 195 Paoli, Pa. 59 Kirn, Walter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRINCETON SQUAD | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

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