Word: downtown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maggot-ridden yet, Hoffman went back downtown, inspected the empty floors in the Maiatico Building, ate a peanut-butter sandwich in a nearby pharmacy, and met reporters again in his old State Department building offices. A French reporter asked him for a word for Europe. Said Hoffman promptly: "The only reason I'm in this damn job is that I have good will for Europe...
Picked up at the County Clerk's office, by lackadaisical Cinemactress Lauren Bacall, who had taken 2½ years getting around to the errand: $2,300 in U.S. bonds being held for her there. "It's an exhausting trip into downtown Los Angeles," she explained, "and I was so tired...
...days later, Tamer was arrested in a downtown Detroit bar, and the story broke. Detroit police dropped hints that Tamer had "made contact" with players on other teams in the league. And it was no secret that gamblers congregated near the entrance of the Detroit rink before hockey games to hawk bets. There were lots of gamblers at other big-league hockey arenas, too, particularly at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens...
...Kansas City police rounded up a gang of teen-agers who had kept motorists in a state of nerves for two months by I) driving slowly along downtown streets knocking windows out of parked cars with hammers, and 2) stealing machines and using them for "automobile jousts." Jousts were fought at a school ground by youths who drove two stolen cars at each other with the hand throttles open, leaped out seconds before the machines collided...
With prospects for HDC performance at the Brattle Hall Playhouse still in doubt, Dramatic Club officials entered negotiations to present "The Survivors" at a downtown theater. Several veterans' organizations may join with the HDC in bringing the Irwin Shaw war play to Boston for a week...