Word: streets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Police described the killing as a well-planned, professional job. They found evidence that Touhy had been under surveillance from a basement in an apartment house across the street almost from the day he was released. His movements and habits were well known by his killers. "I don't know exactly who did it, but I do know the Chicago mob was behind it," a shaken Ray Brennan told the coroner. "There are some other people you can bring here. Touhy had three enemies and he talked about them often. He regarded [ex-Cop Tubbo] Gilbert as his worst...
...Night Must Fall, her Aunt Kate yelled terrifyingly from the back of the hall: "I'm going to tell your mother!" Sometimes, Annie revolted against such domination; once she grabbed her mother's modest jewelry and sold it for pennies to the first comers in the street...
...that Playwright William Gibson wrote into Seesaw while the show was trying out on the road. The middleaged, Midwestern lawyer tells Gittel: "I said [you are] a beautiful girl; I didn't mean skin-deep-there you're a delight. Anyone can see. And underneath is a street brawler. That some can see. But under the street brawler is something as fresh and crazy and timid as a colt." And that, right now, is probably as good a description of Anna Maria Italiano as can be found...
Meanwhile, adding fresh green Ivy to the executive tradition, Stanton named a new president: 41-year-old James Aubrey Jr., a 1941 Princeton graduate (and football end) who worked on West Coast magazines (Street & Smith, Conde Nast) and a local CBS station before getting his first network job just three years...
...Virginian." The needs of cotton, his father's health, and melodrama send Allan at twelve to live among his mother's kin on Boston's Beacon Street. Are his principles as a gallant son of the South in danger? They are, and soon there is the fateful passage: "Uncle William, you must help me. I have been reading Uncle Tom's Cabin." Yankee Uncle William promptly takes young Allan to an abolitionist meeting, where Allan learns from an escaped slave: "Yes, Virginian, there is a Simon Legree...