Monthly Archives: December 2018
In the late summer of 1942, my family moved from an apartment in a two family house on Rosedale Avenue in the east Bronx to an apartment at 3235 Grand Concourse in the west Bronx. I was seven years old and starting the second grade at PS 80, having transferred from PS 46. Our apartment was on the third floor and I soon became friends with the other boys in the building. My best friend in those years was Garry…..
In the early 1950s, when I was in high school in New Rochelle, N.Y., I saw Humphrey Bogart’s film, Deadline-USA, about an intrepid newspaper editor, whose paper, The Day,” was being sold by the children of the late founder. This comes at a time, when the paper is closing in on a major crook in the town. In the end, the paper succeeds in printing evidence of his crimes. The film has the feel of a newspaper office at that…..