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...visible to all approaching drivers and thus would control the flow of Square traffic. The pedestrian lights are designed to restrain those who would match wills with the Boston-brand cowboy. It would be wise to supplement these proposals by changing the position of our policeman and his booth to the center of the intersection. From here it is possible to control front-seat tempers, while as it is now, the law controls little aside from sight-seers and boy scouts...
...onto the scene as director general of UNRRA, to succeed the tired and ailing Lehman. Cried LaGuardia, as he prodded the snail-paced Combined Food Board: "I am going to get wheat, or I am going to tell the world why not! . . . I am not going around like Evangeline Booth with a tambourine in my hand...
Edwin Bray Booth...
Hamlet strode into a new Broadway record. Edwin Booth had played him in Manhattan for 100 performances; John Barrymore had perversely made the record 101 after a delegation of Bootholaters begged him to stop at 99. Maurice Evans hit 102 last week and kept on loping...
Ovaltine & Love. Gladys, another of the questing four, handed out nickels in a subway booth and roomed with a girl friend named Winnie. "They were always making Ovaltine and talking till all hours of the night. About deep things. Like love and why you do what you do." One day Winnie was run over by a taxi. Gladys "wanted a minister to say something about [Winnie] at the funeral." But all the ministers said sorry, it was the Easter rush; they had no time. Gladys began to wonder what God really was. She saw a stained-glass window that said...