Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oliver Twist had opened without fanfare in a second-rate theater in the British sector, the Kurbel (meaning: the crank). The theater is in a neighborhood heavily populated by Polish Jewish D.P.s. One night last week, D.P.s rioted in the moviehouse, stopped the show, damaged the theater. Berlin Jewish groups and Ernst Reuter, Berlin's mayor, appealed to the British to ban the movie...
...little village, perched on the lip of a river gorge, was a bright little place with a steepled church and red-roofed houses. Because such surrounding peaks as snowcapped Karwarasu act as sounding boards for the hot springs that gurgle intermittently in the neighborhood, the Incas had named the village Sondondo-"the place that beats like a heart...
...Just a Synopsis." With his present (and fourth) wife, pretty onetime show girl Lucille ("Brown Sugar") Wilson, Satchmo makes his "regular home" in a twelve-room house in a mixed white-and-colored neighborhood in Corona, borough of Queens, New York City...
...four (from the Cambridge Neighborhood House) took out for Briggs to see Barbara Blessing and Martha Martin, both '52, who had taken special charge of them during the Christmas party. Dorm residents found out that the boys had come directly after church, skipping dinner to get to Driggs in time for the afternoon activity. They were too late, however, for dinner; so girls resurrected dessert remnants for refreshment. Afternoon activity turned out to be cards and sporadic banging on the grand plano...
Captain Ready disclosed that his suspect was an elderly man who lives in the neighborhood and had previously caused trouble when drunk, but "never anything like this...