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Miss Spring was taken to the Misericordia Hospital in the Bronx in critical condition. The accident has left her paralyzed below the waist. Doctors operated to restore the nerves controlling her leg muscles, but they will not know how successful they were for another three or four weeks. At that time she will be moved to either the University Health Center or the Massachusetts General Hospital...
Died. Jane Bunche Pierce, 33, U.N. Under Secretary Ralph Bunche's daughter, a housewife with three small children; of injuries suffered when she fell or jumped from the roof of her nine-story apartment building; in The Bronx, New York City...
Died. Helen Kane, 62, a saucy soubrette from The Bronx who could barely sing a note, but in the flapper-happy '20s turned a baby voice, puckered-up lips, a couple of songs (/ Wanna Be Loved by You, Button Up Your Overcoat) and one nonsense phrase ("boop-boop-a-doop") into a national craze; of cancer; in Queens...
Countless forgotten ghettos--Williamsberg, Coney Island, Morrisania, the South Bronx, the Upper West Side --are learning that to get anything from a high school to a recreation program, a community must be organized and must show that it can be a trouble maker if it is not well cared for. "I can't exactly tell people to get out in the streets,"' explained one Board of Education leader in the South Bronx, "but that's what they'll have to do to get schools...
Compromise. The sorry struggle to open I.S. 201 oscillated from comedy to pathos to chaos. In a belated effort to keep an earlier promise that at least 20% of the students would be white, school officials last summer sent 10,000 leaflets into Queens and The Bronx, extolling the $5,000,000 school's virtues and inviting white students to enroll. Windowless, air-conditioned and soundproofed, the building would create an ideal learning environment. It would have one teacher for every 24 students, extra teachers for tutorial work, offer independent study, foreign languages and musical-instrument instruction...