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Last week, now 54 and getting grey, Reuben Nakian was in a Manhattan gallery with an exhibit he was certain was worth saving. Working at Newark's School of Fine and Industrial Art, the center of a group of noisy, eager students, he has turned out 15 large and small statues in two years. All are of Europa and the bull done in natural clay washed over with red, black and pastel glazes. The work looks rough and half-finished, is built of abstract masses of streaming, fluted clay with little or no regard for anatomy. The angry figures...
...NEWARK. N.J., April 15--Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower pulled steadily ahead of Senator Robert A. Taft with about one third of the vote counted tonight in New Jersey's primary test of GOP presidential race strength...
...York reacted with fright and anger. Ever since Newark Airport was closed last Feb. 11, as the result of three crashes which killed a total of 119 people, Idlewild and La Guardia Airports had been forced to handle all air traffic for greater New York. At week's end, some New Yorkers began demanding that Idlewild and La Guardia be shut down...
...reporter, and wangled a job drawing editorial cartoons for another. This made a total of seven jobs at once, "but I was still making less than Louise (his future wife) who was writing for a large city newspaper." In 1936 he got his job with the Newark Evening News and decided that it was about time for him to get married--since he was finally making more money than Louise...
Helping to expose the gambling machines that were milking Newark in the early 40's was exciting: "I had to ride back and forth on the train, look for men who were reading scratch sheets, and try to find out from them where the gamblers operated. I followed a heavy bettor to the gaming house, counted how many times he rang the bell, and ten minutes later did the same. After playing craps for a while on the newspaper's money, I left by telling them an ulcer was acting up. But all this isn't unusual. Most reporters...