Word: tenement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt, 32, wan, wistful heiress (to $4,500,000), mother of two (by Maestro Leopold Stokowski), summer-stock actress, painter and poetess, whose 1955 volume, Love Poems, was dedicated "For S and the Search"; and the book's presumed dedicatee, Sidney Lumet, 32, tenement-raised onetime Broadway actor, horn-rimmed director of TV (You Are There), cinema (Twelve Angry Men) and stage (The Doctor's Dilemma); she for the third time, he for the second (his first: Cinemactress Rita Gam); in Manhattan...
Most unusual feature of the outbreak ("Not an epidemic," insisted Dr. Bundesen) was its distribution. Poliomyelitis is usually most virulent among the well-scrubbed, well-laundered middle and upper classes. But half of Chicago's cases came from a tenement section on the West Side, inhabited largely by Negro and Puerto Rican immigrants. In such families, most children get mild, undetected polio infections in their early years, and such infections give them immunity for life. One guess: the children stricken had been infected before with polio virus of one paralytic strain, while the current outbreak might have been caused...
...enough to get into real trouble. Graziano begins to ricochet between a cluttered cold-water flat and a series of reformatories, pens and Army prisons. Out of jail, he leads his gang of rocks on street forays-stripping tires from parked cars, hijacking trucks, reaching through tenement windows to steal radios, breaking open subway coin machines. In the hands of the police, he is the classic tough. He spits on the floor of the warden's office, grinds out a cigarette on a psychiatrist's hand, gives a careless guard a knee in the groin. At home...
...protection money. After holding onto their franchise in the face of attacks by some of the toughest tearaways in The Smoke, the Sabini gang at last gave way to the Black Brothers, who in turn were muscled out by Jack Spot. Born of Polish-Jewish parents in a Whitechapel tenement in 1912, Jack Spot (né Comer) was a shrewd operator with a taste for custom-made silk shirts, big black cigars and 40-guinea suits. It took a fat wad of track-protection money to buy these luxuries for Jack, but to help him collect...
...family's struggle for survival in the immediate postwar period, here offers a fictional study of a German family falling apart after a half-decade or more of peace and growing prosperity. The brawling, sprawling, 15-member clan that occupies the first two floors of a Ruhr Valley tenement house is known to its neighbors only as "the bunker family." This is a snide reference to the family's having lived 4½ years in a bunker (bomb shelter) under the Cologne Cathedral...