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...Bronx, fire is not the only problem a fireman faces. Because the fire truck usually gets there faster than the squad car, ghetto people commonly rush to a firebox to get help when somebody has been stabbed, shot, raped, run over or overdosed. Fireman Smith spends much time caring for the victims. He doesn't complain about these extra social services; he grew up in a slum himself, and in helping poor people he feels he is helping his own kind. What stuns him, what drives him almost to despair, is that in return for his help almost...
...married and had a son (named after him, now seven years old). Then he took a mistress, Greta lude, a beautician. On Aug. 19, 1965, Blyden parked a rented car, a blue 1965 Mustang, in front of his girl friend's house in The Bronx. That same afternoon, a black man walked into Alexander's Rent-A-Car agency, six blocks away, and stole $600. He rode off in a 1965 blue Mustang, which had been waiting with a driver at the wheel...
...picture was not always that pleasant for Gene Pope. Born in The Bronx, he edited his father's Italian-language // Progresso before buying the debt-ridden New York Enquirer in 1952 with $75,000 in borrowed money. Pope transformed it from a horse-racing sheet into a gruesome tabloid in order to turn a profit. "I noticed how auto accidents drew crowds," he recalls, "and I decided that if it was blood that interested people, I'd give it to them." In the mid-1960s, however, circulation leveled off, and the number of newsstands and corner candy stores...
...novel begins, Raul sits in a beanery in The Bronx, near the Cabot School, wrapped in a satisfying combination of doom and glory. He is preparing to cut classes for the tenth straight day. Fascinated classmates crowd round to be recognized or snubbed, as black-princely honor requires. Expertly-he is practiced at this-Raul builds his mood from their reactions. He must have theater. Alec, a worldly friend, asks why Raul has dressed in black. "I'm in mourning for my life," he replies. "Who is that from?" asks Alec, a bit off balance. "Chekhov," says Raul...
...Hospital shares little but garrulousness with the kind of Bronx homespun that made Screenwriter Chayefsky's reputation (Marty, The Bachelor Party). It has more in common with the dyspeptic humor of Chayefsky's The Americanization of Emily, a clubfooted send-up of war heroes. It even has the same director, Arthur Hiller, who last holiday season took the medical profession rather more seriously in Love Story...