Out in the World
Frances Koral
— And I didn't leave home till I got married. And then I left far 'cause I went down to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. [My husband] was a City College fellow. I was a Brooklyn College person. And then the two of us went together 'cause we both lived in Brooklyn so it was easy for him to come pick me up and take me home, 'cause he lived on the Ocean Avenue trolley and I lived very close to the Ocean Avenue Trolley. And we've been married for fifty-three years and relatively happy.
Phyllis LeShaw
— I worked as a singer in a place called Crystal Lake later on, a few years after college, went on a strike there too because we didn't like the conditions. Oh, it's wonderful to strike. I was in other strikes after that, I'll have you know.
Marion Greenstone
— My husband was in the Army. He went in in '42. He graduated from City College and joined the Army. People joined the army in those days 'cause they thought it was necessary. And he was in the infantry and was wounded in Germany. I guess I met him in '45. I graduated in '46 and we were married shortly thereafter. There were visits— furloughs— and then he went to Europe. I remember reading the papers on the subway everyday, wondering where these places were and what was happening. It's hard to imagine what life was like. Until I heard the stories from him I really didn't have much of an idea.
We lived in a furnished room in the Bronx 'cause there were no apartments to be had. And we lived there for a year and we had to share a bathroom with two other couples. And then Myron and I, when we moved to New York, we lived in Stuyvesant Town and we were very active in the American Labor Party.
Marjorie Brockman
— Somebody got me a job, a friend, with an industrial psychologist named Bill Chrisy in 1945. I remember I was working with him when V.J. Day happened in August and he suggested I go to graduate school. Like I said, I was nineteen. I had no idea what I wanted to do or what I could do and I applied to five or six different universities. And he knew Fredrick Dashill who was head of the department at North Carolina and they gave me a graduate assistantship, which paid my tuition and sixty dollars a month living, expenses. And I went. And it was a very interesting experience.
Elliot Levine
— I remained [in Brighton Beach] until years after my parents' death. Long before that I already took this apartment here on Morton Street and I used to divide my time between my parents' home and here. I was in business with my father on Varick Street. This location was very convenient. I could sort of fall out of bed and go to work and sometimes come back here for lunch. I took the apartment shortly after I did my first professional show, which was at Theater East. I figured that now that I was in the profession I had to be in Manhattan to make rounds, take auditions and so forth. And I've been here ever since. I must tell you that if anyone had bet me that I'd stay here ten years I would have given them a thousand to one odds against it.