Word: greenwich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women) in Judge Taylor's federal court in Knoxville, was remarkable as much for its cast of characters as its issue. Long-legged Frederick John Kasper, 27, was the headline defendant, a preening cock in his moment of glory. Kasper ran a bookshop in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1953. A screwball without a cause, he seemed then to be a friend to Negroes, permitted solicitation of N.A.A.C.P. contributions in his shop, frequented interracial dances, kept company with a Negro girl. Yet after he bolted to Washington, D.C., his store rent unpaid, hundreds of inflammatory anti-Semitic pamphlets...
...Brothers (later Starrett Brothers & Eken), builders of the Empire State Building and such other Manhattan landmarks as the Flatiron Building, Pennsylvania Railroad Station and the Plaza, Commodore and Biltmore hotels, as well as luxury hotels in other cities throughout the U.S., and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.; in Greenwich, Conn...
...things in his book is his shyly proud report that his correspondence (including a postcard from Mecca) is filed in the special-collections division of the University of Southern California's library, a mass of 10,000 items which must comprise the biggest pile of profound piffle since Greenwich Village's Harvardman Joe Gould compiled his 10 million-word Oral History of Our Time...
...celebrated gaming booths of NBC's Twenty One last week rocked under a rhubarb that had even the head croupiers puzzled. Playing their sixth tie game in four weeks, at a husky $3,500 a point, Greenwich Village Artist Jim Snodgrass, 34, and Medical Research Consultant Hank Bloomgarden, 28, both answered correctly a ten-point question on European royalty, then went for the tough eleven-pointer: Name the five groups of bones in the human spinal column (see diagram). A onetime pre-med student, Snodgrass began with a noun, "sacrum," was ruled out by M.C. Jack Barry, whose answer...
Among Manhattan's most successful: ¶ Cafe Bohemia, a room in Greenwich Village that for years specialized with indifferent success in beer and sagging chorines until the late Jazzman Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker one evening offered to "do a gig" on his alto sax to square a bar debt. The Bird died before he could make good, but the Bohemia nevertheless plastered its walls with record jackets and went jazz. A favorite hangout of off-duty jazzmen, it also attracts the earnest and informed young jazz buffs in heavy spectacles and flamboyant shirts who sit for hours nursing drinks...