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This now policy toward Square rallies has prevented a recurrence of the 1928 riot, during which policemen clubbed students and a paddy wagon was overturned. Today, police attempt to calm any gathering through sheer superiority of numbers: all off-duty officers are sent to the riot scene and infiltrate the student ranks. Then by breaking up individual fights, the police try to frustrate mass battles...
Born in Dallas, the son of a well-to-do real-estate man, Rosenfield broke into the arts doing second-string reviews for the late Burns Mantle on the old New York Evening Mail, later worked as a press-agent (he once drove a covered wagon down Broadway to exploit a movie...
...Square that the battle took on its real character, a fight against the police by the combined Harvard and Yale forces. The rioters began to attack passing cars, trolleys, and trucks. The first paddy wagon arrived at 12:10 a.m. and shortly after it left with the initial load five males and two of their dates...
Soon the company spread. On the profits, the tea company opened new red-fronted stores in surrounding towns, started wagon routes to sell tea & spices to farm wives, changed the company's name to the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Partner Gilman soon sold out and retired on his profits, but Hartford plugged on. By 1880, when his plump, 16-year-old son George quit school to become his cashier, he had 100 stores...
Novelist Halliday knew the risk he would run. At 43, a diabetic and a dipso-gone-dry, he was childishly dependent on his mistress to keep him on the wagon and at work on the novel he had been trying to write for several years. Since he dared not run the lesser risk of offending Producer Milgrim, Manley Halliday did as he was told...