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Ruth Gruber Winner of Silurians 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award Society of the Silurians LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD BANQUET The Cornell Club 6 East 44th Steet Wednesday, November 16th In Honor of RUTH GRUBER Drinks: 6 p.m. Dinner: 7:15 p.m. Meet old friends Merriment e-mail: [email protected] Reservations: Published by The Society of The Silurians, Inc. an organization of veteran New York City journalists founded in 1924 (212) 532-0887 by Charles Edward Russell, William O. Inglis, Perry Walton, and David G. Baillie. Members and One Guest $100 Each Non-Members $120 THE OLDEST PRESS CLUB IN THE UNITED STATES NOVEMBER 2011 Ruth Gruber Winner of Silurians 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award International Correspondent, Photographer on the Cusp of History Humanitarian of Heroic Tenacity By Eve Berliner Images that haunt the mind – a hoisted flag, desperate eyes, outcries, pieces of time and memory, Ruth Gruber, at 100 years of age, a wizened, rather beautiful little butterfly, deep deep blue eyes peer- Photograph by Ruth Gruber The exiles of Exodus 1947, barred from entering Palestine by the British, await de- portation back to Germany. A flag of defi- ance is raised overhead. Reel Inheritance Films ing into time, her wings outstretched, Ruth Gruber, special emissary of the Roosevelt Administration, documenting frontier life in Alaska, 1941. drawn to the dispossessed of this earth, refugees of Nazi death camps and fear, Shadowed by British men-of-war and witness. In the end, the British refused Gruber would utter. no one to give sanctuary. Her epiphany, under constant threat, the Exodus was them entry and deported them back to Ruth, on that final tragic journey with the harrowing voyage of The Exodus brutally attacked by a British flotilla, leav- Germany to the refugee camps of the desolate, in her white suit and wide- 1947, a ship carrying 4,500 Jewish Holo- ing three dead, 150 injured. The war torn Elmden and Wilhelmshaven. brimmed straw hat, amid the teeming caust survivors to British Mandate Pal- vessel limped into the Port of Haifa, “I knew my life would be inextrica- masses on board the prison ship, estine in defiance of the British blockade. Gruber there with her camera to bear bly bound by rescue and survival,” Ruth Continued on Page 5 and fancied pretty girls with Summer of ‘77 shoulder-length dark hair. By Owen Moritz Thousands of women were so terrified they cut or dyed It may be hard to believe today, but in their hair blond or made a run the summer of 1977 New Yorkers feared on blonde wigs at beauty sup- for their very lives. A serial killer was ply stores. preying on young people. In slightly more Moreover, there was the than a year he killed six people, wounded manic boast that put every- seven others. No one knew what he one on edge. He sent wild looked like and the descriptions from sur- notes to Police Captain Jo- vivors were so sketchy that each new seph Borrelli and Breslin. composite drawing bore little resemblance “Sam’s a thirsty lad,” he to the previous one. We weren’t even sure wrote Breslin, “and he won’t if we were looking for Jack the Ripper or let me stop killing until he gets Jill the Ripper. There had been sugges- his fill of blood.” tions the killer might be a woman. In the early morning of I was among a number of Daily News July 31, 1977 the killer struck staffers writing speculative stories on the again, stalking a young police manhunt for someone calling him- couple to a parked car in self Son of Sam. In my case I was get- Bensonhurst. He crept up si- ting feeds from Bill Federici and Pat Doyle lently as the pair kissed and at police headquarters. Meanwhile, col- fired away at close range. umnist Jimmy Breslin was working his Stacy Moskowitz, 20, died own sources. within hours and Robert We all knew certain things about the NYPD Mug Shot Violante, also 20, lost an eye. killer—he stalked couples in secluded Son of Sam, David Berkowitz, The .44 Caliber Killer who terrorized New York City during the summer Ten days later, on Aug. 10, parking spots, used a .44 caliber revolver of 1977, and murdered six young people. Continued on Page 4 PAGE 2 SILURIAN NEWS NOVEMBER 2011 Bedbug By Malachy McCourt Concommitant with the rise of the tea party we are now infested with the rise of that disgusting horror known as the bed- bug. Some people would rather deal with Al Qaeda than this new threat to our city. Very little is known about this verminous addition to our society except that it does like living with humans particularly con- servatives as their blood has the bitter- ness quotient bedbugs need. Our state government has passed a law requiring landlords to reveal the history of bedbug infestation in any building or apartment they have for release or rent. I can’t imagine landlords revealing anything about their close relatives the bedbug. Unlike other bugs the bedbug reputedly does not carry disease. The housefly takes a stroll on errant turd and carries some of it on its legs to your slice of bread. The mosquito sucks some malaria blood and spews it into your epidermis. The louse carries typhus and the flea is delighted to carry various other diseases. When I was a resident in some of the more colourful slums of Limerick Ireland we were hosts to all manner of bedbugs. The great writer, thespian and raconteur, Malachy McCourt. My brother Frank wrote in vivid prose about how he and my father carried a bug’s existence except when nagged to on the most luxurious of limousines to other elimination method. Suppose you mattress from the dreadful furnished room do something. My mother spent hours some of the best hotels in these United trap one of these little beasts and holding we had just moved into and beat it and catching them and crushing them on her States. They snuggle down in your lug- him firmly in tweezers, pull his legs off shook it till the clouds of bedbugs lost their thumbnails but it was impossible to imag- gage and disembark at the nearest bed slowly with another tweezers and having hold and tumbled on to the wet pave- ine an itch free, bite free night in any of where frequently they meet the love of enlisted that electronic genius your son, ment. our crowded beds. their lives and they settle down for a while who is an expert on sound, to set up the Having fleas was the cause of great Most people keep dogs cats birds and particularly if it’s the honeymoon suite. most sensitive sound system ever devised shame in holy Limerick as it was attrib- goldfish as household pets but our pets As they are a somewhat benign mini so that the screams of the dying bedbug uted to having a dirty home. You were were the aforementioned vermin with terrorist you won’t get much sympathy if will be heard by his family and by every not allowed fleas, lice or tuberculosis be- whom we were on very intimate terms. you call upon Homeland Security to help bedbug in New York with the result that cause you would be destroyed by the vi- In some cultures the men cut their thumbs repel them and despite the fact that our they will all flee to Alaska and take ref- cious whispering gossip of your Catholic and mingle the blood in order to become country spends $2 million every minute of uge in Sarah Palin’s house. I would ad- neighbours. We moved from furnished blood brothers. Our bugs just helped them- every day on defense, the U.S. cavalry vise against letting bedbugs into your room to furnished sordid room accompa- selves at night without asking, with the will not help you in any way. house even if you are a Tea Party mem- nied by armies of hopper’s as my mother result that the McCourts are blood Bros However there is a sure way of killing ber because they don’t vote and they bite called them. Some people said you to a vast number of the vermin world. The a bedbug: you even if you feed them and they lay couldn’t have fleas and lice at the same Bible tells us that Jesus wore a seamless A. Secure two small blocks of wood eggs all over the place as well as that time; same tale as not having mice and robe which kept the lice and bugs in a 2" x 2" they are always off somewhere at the rats living in harmony. They were wrong. state of frustration as they like to hang B. Capture the bedbug movies, Sarah Palin’s jet armchairs, other We had everything that walked crawled out in seams. Where else do they reside? C. Place bedbug on one block of wood people’s luggage, luxury hotels, syna- or flew. On any given morning one look Beds of course, armchairs and the film D. Strike said bug with the other block gogues and mosques and churches and at us would indicate that measles had bro- industry is quite annoyed that the bugs are of wood until dead they use you as a walking ATM for blood. ken out during the night and dotted our slipping into cinemas now without paying E. Repeat with all other bedbugs until They are not nice and I think they fair skins with the usual red measles dots one dime.
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