Word: rosenberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Billy the Kid. That is life in the "upholstered trap" fashioned for himself by William Samuel Rosenberg, born in 1899 on a kitchen table on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His father was a peddler who would rather have been a poet. "When people were doing passementerie," says Billy, "he was in fringe." On the fringe is where the Rosenbergs lived. They never held on to a set of rooms for long; it was cheaper to move (to The Bronx or to Brooklyn) than pay the rent...
...That the Rosenbergs had any home at all was a triumph for Billy's mother, Fannie Rosenberg, a woman as firm and substantial as black bread. Fannie did everything big. She yearned for a 30-room house. In later, better days, she frequently brought home 20 pounds of fish for her little family, and baked up vast heaps of pastry that lay around for weeks going stale. In bigness, Fannie found an outlet from an environment that imprisoned her as a radiator imprisons steam. At this steam valve, Billy was nurtured and here he inhaled the megalophilia that...
...lineups: Dunster; rf, Flynn; lf, MacDonald; c, Brunsman; rg, Rosenberg; lg, Okamura, Leverett; rf, Warren; lf, Cameron; c, Butler; rg, Eder; lg, Thorne...
Leverett: rf, Warren: lf, Cameron: c, Thorne; rg. Hurley; lg, Eden. Dunster: rf, Okamura; lf, Rudolf; c. Brunsman; rg, Flynn: lg, Rosenberg...
Winthrop: rf, Wade; lf, Berens; c, Powell; rg, Garvey; lg, Noonan. Dunster: rf, Okamura; lf, Cohen; c, Brunsman; rg, Flynn; lg, Rosenberg...