Word: bronx
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Ernest Sutherland Bates, 60, insatiably curious author & critic, onetime literary editor of the Dictionary of American Biography; of a heart attack; in The Bronx, N. Y. In one work-crammed year (1936) Dr. Bates produced: The Story of the Supreme Court, The Story of Congress, Hearst, the Lord of San Simeon (coauthor), The Bible Designed To Be Read as Living Literature. Few minutes before his death Author Bates had concluded the preface to his latest book, American Faith, treatise on U. S. religions from 1860 to the present...
Skyscrapers, subways, slums and slicks, seven million people from the Bronx to Coney, that's the phenomenon people call New York City. It's a world within a nation, a monster cosmopolitanism which, like most great things, defies definition. Vinton Freedley, Jr. has written, and the Dramatic Club has produced a play about New York. They have not tried to define it, but they have, within the limits of stagecraft, tried to reproduce some of its many facets. To realize the ambitions ideal they set up for themselves, the Dramatic Club has used a cast of more than...
...drizzly night last week, TWA Pilot Jack Zimmerman, with 20 passengers behind him, circled over The Bronx. With the scattered lights of Central Park on his right, to his left stretched the darkened reaches of Long Island sound. Ahead of him lay a floodlit field with a runway 6,000 feet long and 200 feet wide, Runway No. 1 of New York City's North Beach airport. Jack Zimmerman plunked the DC-3 down short, turned right and taxied up to the administration building where swart Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and a knot of city bigwigs waited in a crowd...
...Coughlin said that 90% of the Christian Mobilizers were "fine people," but its leadership was allied with the Bund. Therefore, said he, ''as much as I need $128," he was returning a check for that sum which had been raised for him by Christian Mobilizers in The Bronx...
...Sawdust Caesar, Author George Seldes stuck out his tongue at Benito Mussolini. In Lords of the Press, he thumbed his nose at U. S. journalism. Last week, in The Catholic Crisis (Messner, $3), Author Seldes uttered some hoarse Bronx cheers at the Roman Catholic Church. His thesis is that the Church has dallied too long with Fascism, and his book suggests that his way of fixing things would be to have someone like Oswald Garrison Villard for Pope. He devotes more than 300 pages to accusing Catholic churchmen and laymen of all manner of misdeeds-pressure against the press...