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...make the guests happy," said the entertainment director at Camp Tamiment in the Poconos, and young Jerry Robbins did-as a borscht-belt dancer. Jerry (whose real name was Rabinowitz) wanted to be a chemist, but his immigrant father was toughing it out in the corset business in Weehawken, N.J., and Jerry had to take what jobs he could find...
Virginia City Weehawken...
...Aaron Burr. In Tammany, which drew its membership from working men and enlisted veterans of the army of the Revolution, Burr saw the perfect political counterfoil to Alexander Hamilton's Society of the Cincinnati, a veterans' organization made up of officers. When Burr and Hamilton dueled at Weehawken, two Tammany sachems were with Burr, one as his second. That night, as Hamilton lay dying, there was a gala celebration at Tammany headquarters in the Long Room of Abraham Martling's Nassau Street tavern...
...back at Robert R. Young. The occasion was a commuters' meeting in New York's Rockland County to protest Young's plan to stop carrying passengers on the Central's 71-year-old West Shore line. The line meanders 142 miles along the Hudson between Weehawken (N.J.) and Albany (N.Y.), carries 4,000 commuters a day into Manhattan. According to Young, it is losing some $3.000,000 annually on passengers. At the meeting, a young matron strode determinedly onstage carrying a pig labeled "Young Bob." Beside her stood another flushed lady holding aloft a sign saying...
...perishable-goods shipments by ten hours. ¶ Next month the Interstate Commerce Commission will be asked for permission to discontinue the road's West Shore line, which carries some 4,000 commuters down the west side of the Hudson, then takes them across to Manhattan on the Weehawken ferry. The Central, said Young, has already lost enough on the West Shore to buy Chevrolets for all its passengers to drive to New York...