Word: bronx
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...quit school at 14, became a drummer for a dress company, in seven years had a small chain of suburban retail dress stores, in partner ship with an older brother. Drifting on, he lost $75,000 in the stock market, taught driving to the novice customers of a Bronx Chevrolet dealer, sold religious statuettes to the followers of Harlem Evangelist Daddy Grace, drove an ambulance for one day and was fired because several passengers all but expired while he searched for the hospitals of the unfamiliar city...
...vivid day last week, the NBC peacock was the cynosure of every eye-fluttering peahen from the Bronx Botanical Gardens to Los Angeles' Griffith Park. On show after show, NBC's symbol of color television appeared, while announcers crowed about the network's Color Day, every show a bottled rainbow. For once the soap operas were literally purple, and even Huntley and Brinkley gave hues of the news...
...from the Kennedys that De Sapio & Co. must go. To take the teeth out of the Tammany tiger, the Kennedys cut off De Sapio's federal patronage. Run-of-the-mill jobs are now being dispensed through Congressman Eugene Keogh of Brooklyn and Charles Buckley, boss of The Bronx, while applicants for higher jobs must call upon Bobby Kennedy or Brother-in-Law Sargent Shriver. The Washington tactics produced the desired results. New York's Mayor Robert Wagner pushed Old Friend De Sapio to arm's length, last week huddled with Reformer Lehman, gave word that...
...Polish-Russian immigrants who settled in The Bronx, Rivers started out to be a jazz musician. He spent his summers playing the saxophone on the Catskill circuit, even did a hitch at the Juilliard School of Music. His idols were Charlie Parker and Lester Young. But one day Rivers met a girl who had high hopes of becoming a painter. "Enter women," says he of that romance. "That's how it all began...
...year-old Philippine doctor sat grimly in a Bronx hospital one day last week, hands clenched, anger and sadness on her face. In 1958 she had paid her own fare to New York, happy at the opportunity to work and study in the U.S. Now a senior resident at the hospital (salary: $3,180), she had earned the full respect of her colleagues. Said the medical superintendent: '"Outstanding-a record such as you have never seen...