Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the cops moved in, Poet Morris exploded. "Until now, poetry hasn't been considered a crime. This is absolutely ridiculous," he announced, and made the front page of the New York Herald Tribune. His remarks also attracted the attention of Deputy Police Commissioner Walter Arm, who was moved to compassion. Taking pen in hand, Commissioner Arm handed down a ruling...
...steal a scene from Jerry Lewis. In Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), she tripped into a memorable bit of miscasting-Ouida, the Hindu princess. Despite wig and dark makeup. Shirley looked about as Indian as Miss Rheingold, but she had no regrets. "Golly," she wrote a New York roommate about Producer Mike Todd, "he never came within three feet of pinching...
OWNERS OF STOCK now total 12,490,000, or 45% more than in 1956, reported the New York Stock Exchange. One of every eight U.S. adults owns stock. Women own 52.5% of all shares...
Died. Charles Gulp Burlingham, 100, New York lawyer, civic reformer for half a century who urged pacemaking social legislation (childlabor, minimum-wage laws), headed a group of public-spirited New Yorkers (Fusionists) who successfully backed anti-Tammany Mayoralty Candidates John Purroy Mitchel (1913) and Fiorello La Guardia (1933), though a Democrat crossed party lines to support Tom Dewey for New York attorney general, denounce F.D.R.'s 1937 Supreme Court-packing bill, promoted the careers of some of the leading jurists of his time (Benjamin Cardozo. Learned Hand) in an unflagging effort to improve the quality of the courts, maintained...
...Arthur E. Summerfield from swiftly reaching a foregone conclusion: The unexpurgated edition of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover is "an obscene and filthy work," and may not be sent through the U.S. mails. He thus continued a 30-year ban, and backed up New York Post Office operatives who vigilantly followed the old ruling last month by seizing 164 copies...