Word: walkup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actress Kelly, who has achieved some fame as a ladylike beauty, also, gets her pretty teeth into a meaty acting part. She is a fine Georgie as she pads about her fourth-floor walkup, thin-lipped and pale, trying grimly to needle a weak-willed husband back to his self-respect. As the relentless, bullying director, Oscar-winning Actor Holden is as sharp as ever: a first-rate professional...
...York City, Hiss will live in a third-floor Greenwich Village walkup apartment that his wife and son have called home. While on parole, he must avoid "evil companions" and report his activities monthly to a parole officer. Confined to New York's Southern District, he may travel upstate almost to Albany, but not to Brooklyn or New Jersey. Being disbarred, he may no longer practice...
...life as she watches the Negro boxer "fighting his fight with a savage grace . . . like the black angel of death himself." After the fight, Laine can't get the black angel out of her mind; she gets his phone number and invites him to her Greenwich Village walkup apartment...
...took a fourth-floor walkup overlooking Trafalgar Square to "have a front seat on the revolution." But he felt cheated: "The revolution came but nobody noticed." He lives there now with his wife, Helen, who says she has to run the Hoover over him every morning" to clean off his cigarette ashes. Married for 49 years, the Swaffers are childless...
...walkup start was European style, and so was the finish. The winner: 13-to-2 Wilwyn, a good-looking, four-year-old bay colt, ridden by English Jockey Manny Mercer. A length and a quarter behind. Ruhe closed fast to nip Zucchero, with Niederlander fourth. Greek Ship, the 6-5 favorite, was a faded sixth. Explained Arcaro: "The other horses just ran past us too fast...