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...Such a Dump." "After World War I," wrote Ernest Kirschten in his book Catfish and Crystal, "St. Louis dozed off. Maybe it was tired. Maybe Prohibition was not only a shock but also a sedative to this beer city. Depression was no stimulant. More than ever, St. Louis turned in on itself, contemplated its communal navel...
...quarter slum, another quarter near slum. No new office buildings had been put up in 25 years. Industry pulled out in wholesale lots. Property values and business activity plunged. "You might ask," wrote English Author Geoffrey Grigson in 1951, "why anyone would be proud of such a dump...
...Angeles, California's smog capital, has been trying for years to get rid of its trapped pollution. Since 1957, the state Air Pollution Control District has prohibited the 1,500,000 backyard rubbish burners that produced 600 tons of acrid smoke a day. It extinguished dump fires, went after smoking factory chimneys, enforced a stiff set of regulations that kept oil refineries from letting more than a trickle of smoke and fumes escape into the air. These measures did some good. For one thing, they changed the color and character of the smog. Los Angeles smog is still maddeningly...
...reckon with since. Thayer's Beethoven is a man of atrocious manners, immense ego and ungovernable temper who at one time or another turned on virtually every one of his friends and alienated most of the musicians of Vienna. His idea of a joke was to dump a bowl of gravy on a waiter who had brought him the wrong dish...
...dreamed up the idea of getting slum residents to dump their garbage on the steps of Brooklyn's Borough Hall. Also involved was Brooklyn Negro Minister Milton A. Galamison, 41, who tried to paralyze the New York City school system with two boycotts early this year...