Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.P.I.'s grief was nothing compared to the tabloid New York Mirror's gaffe. Relying on the advance briefing, the Mirror assumed that the raid had run according to form, made it the banner story (lOO POLICE RAID B'KLYN VICE DENS), and hit the street next morning playing the farce for fact...
...tenements. The young man passing in the street stopped for a moment to listen, then turned into the yard and unslung the tape recorder he always carries over one shoulder. The children's voices recorded on that muggy summer afternoon are preserved in an album called New York 19 (Folkways). The man who recorded them is 35-year-old Tony Schwartz, folklorist with a passion for the sounds of his time and place...
...sounds of Manhattan are far more fascinating to Schwartz than the echo of an Indian sitar. In addition to New York IQ (covering the sounds of Manhattan postal district 19, from the Plaza Hotel to the West Side docks), he has released The New York Taxi Driver (Columbia) and Sounds of My City (Folkways). On them, listeners will find strolling sidewalk instrumentalists, the raucous chatter of pneumatic drills, the wail of sirens-plus a series of rambling speeches, sometimes funny, sometimes pathetic, in the polyglot accents of the New York streets. A plumber, on music: "I mean to me when...
...Hoyt Wilhelm's "junk" is the craziest knuckle ball in baseball today. It floats up to the plate, dances tantalizingly before batters' eyes like a butterfly, then breaks sharply and unpredictably. One night last week his knuckler broke all over the place, kept the bug-eyed New York Yankees flailing futilely. For Wilhelm it was a four-hit shutout, his seventh victory of the year without a loss, and brought his earned-run average down to 1.12-best in the major leagues. At 35, well-built (6 ft., 197 Ibs.) Hoyt Wilhelm is better than he has ever...
...A.M.A. launched its study two years after Dr. Herbert Berger of the New York Medical Society charged that the use of the pills was widespread in sport (TIME, June 17, 1957), intimated that they might be responsible for the rash of four-minute miles (the milers denied using pep pills). Though the use of pep pills has been banned for years by both the Amateur Athletic Union and the International Amateur Athletic Federation, seven of 773 college and high school coaches replying to the A.M.A.'s mail survey admitted they used pep pills on their athletic squads. Presumably, there...