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REPORTER AT LARGE about an attempt to rehabilitate a group of young men drug addicts from the Lower East Side No matter how often the heroin market moves …
Robert Rice
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PROFILE of the episcopalian Church of St. Matthew & St. Timothy on W. 84th St., its rector, Rev. James A. Gusweller, & of his war on housing conditions in …
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PROFILE of a Protestant Episcopal church, the Church of St. Matthew and St. Timothy, on W. 84th St., tracing its history through mergers and changes of …
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PROFILE of Hugh K. Johnson, a member of the N.Y.C. Youth Board and chief of the street-club workers in S. Bronx. Victor Purcell, the supervisor in E. E. …
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PROFILE of Dave Brubeck piano player in the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Dave grew up on a ranch, and he thinks of himself as a cowboy gone wrong. He is a devoted…
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Robert Price’s Profile of the comedians Mike Nichols and Elaine May.
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PROFILE of Mort Sahl, the night club entertainer. Sahl was given his first job, at seventy-five dollars a wekk, by Enrico Banducci, the proprietor of the …
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PROFILE of Anne Hone Rogers, dog-breeder, handler, and co-proprietor (with her mother, Mrs. Olga Hone Rogers) of the Surrey Kennels, in Lake Mahopac. Miss …
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Part 2 of a Profile by Robert Rice, from 1958: How the visionary behind “West Side Story” became the director of the New York Philharmonic—which he has been known to conduct, radically, without a baton.
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A Profile by Robert Rice, from 1958: The young maestro behind “West Side Story” has turned the American musical into a form of high art—and baffled the classical-music world in the process.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Nyack Community Ambulance Corps. The Corps, which is supported entirely by contributions and manned entirely by unpaid …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about DDT. It was discovered by Othmar Zeidler in 1874 at the University of Strasbourg. Not realizing its value, he threw it away. It was…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about how the Port Authority is handling the 800 families who must move out of tenements o on 9th Avenue (from 30th to 39th Sts.) to make…
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PROFILE of Countess Tolstoy tells about her work in Russia after the abdication of the Czar, 1917. The government gav her consent to found, with a member …
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PROFILE of Countess Tolstoy, the only surviving child of Leo Tolstoy. The Countess was born Jul. 1, 1884. She was the 12th of 13 children born to the …
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PROFILE of Allen Balcom Du Mont, founder & president of Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc., manufact rers of TV equipment. In 1931, Mr. Du Mont, a …
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Second part of Profile of Branch Rickey, the president, general manager, and one-fourth owner of the Brooklyn Natl Baseball Club, a 68-year-old Methodist, …
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Profile of Branch Rickey, Sr., president, manager and one-quarter owner of the Brooklyn National League Baseball Club. His son Branch Rickey, Jr., is the …
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PROFILE of Lawrence Langner, co-director of the Theatre Guild. In 1915, the forerunner of the Guild, a group called the Washington Square Players, rented …
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PROFILE of Andrew Gunnar Hagstrom, founder & president of the Hatstrom Co., of 20 Vesey St., a map-making concern who lists more than 150 maps, guides & …
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PROFILE of William Rabkin, owner and president of the International Mutoscope Corp., manufacturer of coin-operated amusement machines. The Mutoscope is a …
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Reporter at Large about the Radium Chemical Co., a firm that has sold something like 3/4ths of the radium used in this country. The company was founded in …