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...party rode uptown in Mr. Cohn's car, and Mr. Cohn continued his statement. Twice during the ride uptown and as Mr. Adams was getting out of the car, Senator McCarthy asked Mr. Adams to ask Secretary Stevens if the Secretary could find a way to assign Private Schine to New York...
...physics in new ways, the emblem of an insatiable intellect, has led him into the depths of his science at almost breakneck speed. When he was just starting high school in his native New York, he read unceasingly in physics. "I began to read systematically through the branch libraries uptown, gradually working my way downtown to the Public Library on 42nd Street." By the time Schwinger had graduated from high school, he had read thoroughly in atomic physics and quantum mechanics. His training in mathematics had been to read all that the Encyclopedia Britannica offered on that subject, which...
...free schools were soon superseded by a city system dedicated to education for all. But generations of illiterates lived and died before this idealistic concept was even close to fulfillment. During periods in the1800s, the city tripled its population every generation. In uptown areas "splendid squares and streets are opening on every side," but amid the slums of Five Points thousands of "wretched outcasts" slept in ragged piles amid "a rubbish of bones and dirt," and "swarms of . . . barefooted, unbreeched little tatterdemalions" ran the muddy lanes like animals. As late as 1890, thousands of children of Jewish and Bohemian immigrants...
...inventory), began looking around for "a real big operator" to lease it to. At week's end, he thought he had just the operator: Manhattan's Ohrbach's (TIME, Dec. 13, 1948), a fast-growing Union Square store that has been thinking of moving uptown. The deal, said he, was "very close...
Jackets to Jeans. The Crestubilee got under way at a big banquet in the high-school gym, beneath a giant, school-painted mural of Waikiki Beach. After dinner the basketball floor was cleared and a band, imported from Des Moines, struck up. At 11 p.m. everyone proceeded to the Uptown Theater for a "Hollywood First Night." Searchlights probed the sky and more than 1,000 Crestonians pressed against the ropes and ogled the kids as they went up the blue carpet past photographers and radio interviewers to see a Technicolored musical, The Girl Next Door...