Looking Back

Fifty years ago today, June 8, 1967

Wall Collapse

A section of a brick and concrete wall of a building being torn down crashed across the sidewalk into Broadway about 1 p.m. today, miraculously missing pedestrians. F.C. Ward, operating a crane for Reaves Wrecking Company, said he had just cracked a concrete slab on the wall and the cascading brick and concrete tumbled outward instead of inward at the building at 1213-1221 Broadway, former home of the Chickasaw Club.

Parker Dies at 73

Dorothy Parker, the short story writer and poet whose reputation for the sharp retort made her a legend, is dead at 73. She was best known as a member of the New Yorkers of the 1920s and ’30s who met almost every day at the “round table” of the Algonquin Hotel. Others were Robert Sherwood, Franklin P. Adams, Heywood Broun, Tallulah Bankhead and Alexander Woolcott.

Top Shooter

David Johnson, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Johnson, 1043 Winston Road, is the best marble shooter in the state of Georgia. He claimed top honors in the state marbles tournament in Warner Robins, Ga., and shared some of the credit with his lucky shooter, “a white cleary with blue, spaghetti like lines in it.”

This story was originally published June 7, 2017 at 6:50 PM with the headline "Looking Back."