Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...model housing developments like Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town break up bleak gridiron of East Side slums"? What, I would like to know, will break up the bleak gridiron of these developments? Lewis Mumford was certainly right when he said that if we go on rebuilding New York on such obsolete patterns, we should merely be exchanging slums for future super-slums...
Vane Effect. In Wilmington, N.C., charged with drunkenness the day after he had been convicted of drunkenness and ordered to leave town, John Cartwright, 50, explained: "Every time I raised my good leg off the ground, the wind would come and spin me around; I had to take a drink to steady myself...
Professor Charles E. Merriam, a political scientist who wanted to reform Chicago, ran for mayor in 1911 and lost. Years later, he was strolling with his wife Hilda in her home town, Constableville, N.Y., when they passed an old barn. She remarked casually: "My grandfather used to own a brewery in that building.'' The professor, who had been defeated by politicians weaned on beer, all but shouted: "A brewery! If I'd known that, I could have been mayor of Chicago!" This year the professor's son Robert could likewise have used a brewery...
...year is 1938; the place is Tokot, a town on the Northwest Frontier of India. Captain Carruthers, His Majesty's Resident, and British to the last hair of the tiny mustache on his stiff upper lip, steps up to a curtain behind which he thinks an assassin is hiding. "Why must you do it?" his wife cries. "Because I must," he replies firmly. His answer, in fact the whole picture, is a sort of swansong of the white man who is beginning to stagger under his burden...
This time Theodore (The Mudlark) Bonnet has sited his wide-ranging fancy on the shore of San Francisco Bay. The whisky-spattered portrait that has hung so long over Dan McClatchy's bar in Llagas, a chicken town near San Francisco, turns out to be a real Rembrandt. Carried away by sudden fame and the hope of fortune, Dan fancies up his place and reopens it as the "Lost Dutchman." Feature writers, artists and slumming socialites flock in; they make even more of Dan, a rare, pure specimen of pre-Fire, South-of-Market Irishman, than of his Rembrandt...