Tag: L.I.
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Cyclones: Overnight Sensation By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, April 29, 2001 The line of baseball fans began forming at 7:30 p.m. Friday, growing slowly but steadily, until by Saturday morning it nearly stretched around the mammoth Kings Plaza in Brooklyn. As they waited, they talked of baseball, of Opening Days past, present and future — the next being the June 25 debut…
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U.S. Serbs Saddened and Angry By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, April 04, 1999 Lana Todorovich was on the phone to Belgrade with an urgent message for her parents: “Get out. Now.” In the early hours of March 24, U.S. NATO warplanes bearing bombs were on their way to Yugoslavia. Milan and Yela Simic, 62 and 57 years old, heeded their daughter’s warning. They made…
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SENIOR CITY-ZENS; They left only to find there’s no place like home
Sunday, October 26, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Horst Liepolt left New York City in 1995 for Berlin, where he was born 70 years ago, only to discover his heart belongs to the Big Apple. Ditto for Dolores White, now retired, who yearns to live in the city again. Howard and…
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Teddy Bear Saves Lives: Helps mom and daughter flee Thai inferno By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, July 13, 1997 The life line that would pull them out of the 15th floor of Thailand’s towering inferno was just out of reach, so Rochelle Stein-Salmi of Branford, Conn., borrowed her daughter’s brown teddy bear to hook the line that saved their lives. The rescue of Salmi, 50, and her 7-year-old daughter, Rebecca,…
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Chinatown Fireworks Are Off the Menu By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Sunday, June 29, 1997 A week before Fourth of July celebrations in the city, fireworks were hard to come by in Chinatown. Not even a measly firecracker could be had. The young men hanging around shops on Mott St. eyed a stranger warily. No, he didn’t have fireworks, said one. Not anymore. He didn’t know…
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Queens Activist Is Shot Dead
December 18, 1996 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN and JOHN MARZULLI, Daily News Staff Writers A Queens community activist who collected teddy bears for homeless kids and helped start a volunteer ambulance service was found slain in his printing shop last night, the victim of a possible robbery. Richard Trupkin, 64, had been shot several times…