Early Times Square weekend-getaway '' On November 17

'' On November 17

you could touch the air in New York

a feat rarely seen at that period in time

4 remains part of track and field lore

Baum was the author of ''Antarctica

Early Times Square weekend-getaway '' On November 17Trolleys, horse drawn wagons, men with straw hats and women in long dresses are part of the street scene of 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue, looking northwest, in Times Square in 1908. Inside Hammerstein's Theatre at the corner, Gertrude Hoffman was raising eyebrows at night with her suggestive dance style in "The Vision of Salome." At many theatre houses around the country, her scant costumes led to her arrest by local police. Several curtain calls,