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...warning: "Occupancy by more than 1,700 people dangerous and unlawful." The only nightclub in the world roomy enough to fly such a banner is improbably located on the tawrdry, whiffy flatlands near the southernmost tip of Brooklyn. The Town & Country, sometimes referred to as "Miami Beach in Flatbush," is a 45-minute drive and a $6 cab fare from Manhattan, but it fields a line of first-class talent most clubs would hock their silverware to buy. Its big neon bill of fare regularly blazons such names as Harry Belafonte, Jerry Lewis, Sophie Tucker, Milton Berle, Tony Bennett. Last...
...EDWIN C. BROOME The Flatbush Unitarian Church Brooklyn...
...highways are cluttered with custard stands sporting neon polar bears, while billboards, with their mass messages, evoke visceral responses from the more sensitive traveller. Inside the home, furniture varies from the overstuffed, confused style of Flatbush Renaissance to the cast-iron and cloth butterfly chair...
Bert and Harry are the brain children of Young & Rubicam Copywriter Ed Graham Jr., 27, who has written elaborate biographies for each of the brothers, and talks of them as intimately as if they had all attended P.S. 3 in Flatbush together. Graham explains that Blatherskite Bert is patterned after a retired Young & Rubicam account executive, is "a compulsive pain who can't help stepping on people." Hesitant Harry is modeled on Artist Jack Sidebotham, who drew the brothers, but also bears a marked resemblance to Ed Graham. Envious of Piel's success, two other breweries are planning...
...quietus got an "o," badinage became batonage, and a youngster blurted g-y-r-o-c . . . for gyroscopic and with a despairing cry ("I missed it!") sat down. By 5 p.m. only three contestants were left. Quincunx,'' shot the pronouncer at Naomi Klein of the Yeshiva of Flatbush school (Brooklyn, N.Y.)-and then there were only...