Word: hudson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four of the seniors will be graduated summa cum laude: Ruth Gruhn of Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y.; Deirdre Hubbard of New York City; Svetlanan Leontief of Cambridge; and Anne Ruggles of Dallas...
...declining the invitation. "A reporter normally gets interviews," he said. "These are normal times." In fact, the situation was so abnormal that the Journal was forced to run United Press stories on city government developments in Jersey City; new subscriptions had dropped off 70% since the election. The rival Hudson Dispatch (circ. 56.825), which had expressed less vigorous opposition to the Murray ticket, not only got the run of City Hall but was expected this week to land the city government's legal advertising, a plum that had long been shared by the two papers. The new administration...
Fully intending to take over city hall. Commissioner-elect Murray also laid siege to the statehouse, announced that Governor Meyner should give him control of Hudson County patronage. Brash Newcomer Murray had Meyner over a barrel. Meyner is running for re-election this year, and badly needs the 70,000 vote plurality Hudson County could give him. Moreover, Meyner, a potential Democratic presidential candidate for 1960. needs to be re-elected by a handsome margin if he intends to stay in the big time. Says Murray, waiting for the governor to desert Kenny and come his way: "Meyner...
...York State's Daughters of the American Revolution took New York City officials to task for abbreviating the name of George Washington on highway signs leading to the 3,500-ft. trans-Hudson suspension bridge that is his namesake. Infuriated by such bridge guides as "Geo. Washington," "George Wash." and "Geo. Wash.." the D.A.R. snapped, somewhat raffishly: "After all, he was the first President and all-and we'd like the works...
That is how the show biz weekly Variety good-humoredly told its readers about an extraordinary show that opens in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden this week: Evangelist Billy Graham's crusade for New York, a city he has sometimes regarded as a kind of Gomorrah-on-Hudson. Variety noted admiringly that "for sheer activity, traffic and buzz," his advance office in Manhattan "compares with the William Morris Agency," predicted that the crusade would be the biggest "full-chorus, hallelujah, oldtime religion, monster revival" since Billy Sunday's invasion of New York in 1917. Figures supplied...