Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Giuseppe Bologna left Castel-grande in Italy's southern Apennines, began shining shoes in Manhattan, where bootblacks worked a 15-hr. day and the top ones earned $4 a week. By 1902 Joe had returned to Italy, married, and was back in New York living with his wife and daughter in a $7-a-month apartment on a family food budget of 25? a day. Joe knelt at the feet of bank presidents, utility magnates and numberless clerks. One customer was young Lawyer Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Another was a partner in a brokerage firm, who introduced...
...selling Parade. Field Enterprises' Sunday supplement, to John Hay Whitney, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and controlling owner of the New York Herald Tribune, for $12 million, and by disposing of several other properties, Field raised the $18 million cash that Jack Knight asked for his 75% controlling interest in the News. Ultimately the buy will cost Field another $6,000,000. as minority stockholders, with some 120.000 shares, respond to his offer to buy them out at $50 a share-5 points over the market price. For this he gets an afternoon circulation...
...Cuban rebellion reached a climax last week, the New York Times's Page One stories out of taut Havana ran under the familiar byline of R. Hart Phillips, Cuba correspondent for the Times since 1937. What few Timesreaders knew was that War-and-Peace Correspondent R. Hart Phillips is a 58-year-old widow...
Abbott finished second in the shot to Stew Thompson of the New York Athletic Club, topping B.U.'s Eino Keerd and Larry Cafarella, who defeated him earlier in the season. Despite his fine effort, Bailey went unplaced in the weight event...
Only two players will represent the Crimson squash team in the Harvard Club of New York's Invitation Tournament next Saturday and Sunday. Because of examination commitments for most team members, only Gerry Emmet, second man on the varsity, and Fred Vinton, number five, will compete in the tourney...