Word: greenwich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North Beach," he confided, "has become what Greenwich Village never was. North Beach is an American Left Bank. Small, maybe, but in spirit a cultural frontispiece extending from San Francisco to San Simeon." With a flourish of the hand, he proceeded to reel off a list of names--poets of the technological age, bar-room bohemians and prophets of the "beat, sad-brown and breathless generation...
...Atomic Energy Commission gave the seismologists no help at all, but Dr. Bullen figured out the exact times of all four blasts. Apparently the AEC is a creature of habit: it exploded all its H-bombs at an exact multiple of five minutes after 6 p.m. Greenwich mean time. According to Bullen's figuring, Test Bravo (which killed the Japanese fisherman with radioactive fallout) exploded at 45 minutes, zero seconds past...
Died. Joseph Ferdinand ("Professor Sea Gull," "The Mongoose") Gould, 68, self-styled "Last of the Bohemians," colorful, scraggy-bearded habitue of Greenwich Village bars and Bowery flophouses; in Pilgrim State (mental) Hospital, Brentwood, N.Y. A descendant of silk-stockinged Boston families, Harvardman CTI) Gould was a onetime (1916-17) New York Evening Mail police reporter, a sometime literary critic, since 1917 had worked with savage intensity on a huge (more than 9,000,000 words) "history of people." Unpublished and unfinished, Gould's An Oral History of Our Time was illegibly scribbled in hundreds of nickel notebooks, which...
...when he gave himself a frank appraisal, found his face looking like a "leftover artichoke," his teeth "dropping like loose buttons," his body "convex where it should be concave-or have I got my cons mixed?" He had a high old time with his waitress (Sarah Marshall) in a Greenwich Village spaghetti joint, enjoyed a good cry and a good talk "about everything from her cradle to my grave." Seeing things at last as they are "without the neon nimbus," he of course went home to a forgiving wife and a plain little moral: "Life itself gets a little dusty...
...Associated Press last week filed a party story that raised eyebrows from Washington, D.C. to Washington State. Under a Greenwich. Conn, dateline, A.P. reported: "Dave Beck Sr. and Dave Beck Jr., labor leaders under fire of the Senate labor rackets committee, were guests at a party which also was attended by Robert F. Kennedy, chief counsel for the rackets committee, it was confirmed here today." The A.P. went on to identify "Mrs. Dave Beck Jr." as one of the guests at the party, which was given by Mr. and Mrs. George Skakel Jr. "in honor of Mrs. Kennedy...