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...spur the U. S. air corps' recruiting drive Charlie McCarthy turned up with Edgar Bergen at March Field, Calif., offered a combination peashooter-bombsight "guaranteed to hit a cuspidor at 30 feet," was sworn in as honorary master sergeant by Colonel Benjamin G. Weir, base commander. Viewing 21 flying fortresses lined up in his honor, Charlie suggested: "Try putting a hostess in each...
...throne his, Dr. Di Ghilini set out to prove what he had suspected from Latin and Spanish inscriptions on it: that it had belonged to Spain's great Queen Isabella. For years an international art dealer, Benjamin Benguiat, had owned the throne, refused to sell it even for $25,000. But when Benguiat went bankrupt, Dealer Dan Feldman purchased the throne in a lot, priced it at $3,000. Eventually believing it was a jinx, he sold it to Dealer Osiel in another...
...Outstanding was New York City's Benjamin Franklin High School, a crowded, dilapidated school without playgrounds. Three-quarters of its students are foreign, most of them Italians and Puerto Ricans. Its neighborhood, Manhattan's East Harlem and Nazi-infested Yorkville, is a hotbed of racial strife. Principal Leonard Covello organized courses in intercultural understanding, got his pupils discussing whether there were any pure races, whether the "Aryan race" was superior to others. Soon students formed a Friends & Neighbors Club, cleaned two vacant stores next to the school as headquarters, held meetings and dances, started classes for their parents...
Governed by rigid restrictions laid down for buildings on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the court matches the adjacent Free Library, both being copies of the Marine Ministry in Paris. Architect W. R. Morton Keast, who wangled $1,525,500 of PWA money for the building, was given free hand with the interior. But because of PWA and Philadelphia municipal requirements, Architect Keast had to call for competitive bids for murals. However, he persuaded PWA to let the bidders tell the jury about their qualifications. Philadelphia's municipal Art Jury (once headed by Collector Joe Widener) passed upon 22 bidding artists...
...Langdom Burwell '41 of Eliot House as treasurer of the Council, will head the Finance Committee. Working with him will be Charles Gilfix, Jr. '41; John P. Bunker '42; Benjamin A. Barnes '41; and Harry Hornblower...