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...consecutive appearances, CBS's $64,000 Question last week changed its ground rules so that a successful contestant can return week after week, may go on until he wins $256,000. First memory expert to be eligible for the new goal is Rob Strom, ten-year-old Bronx science whiz, who won his first $64,000 with barely a pause over some half-dozen tough questions...
...three-weapon (foil, épée and saber) Intercollegiate Fencing Association championship in The Bronx was still undecided after 593 bouts. In the 594th and final bout of the tournament, Navy's Larry Polk won a slashing saber victory over Columbia's Joe Bloom (5-4), saved the team title for the Middies...
...overcome Toscanini's dislike of recordings (he was infuriated by their failure to reproduce the sound of his orchestra as he remembered it), Walter Toscanini built a sound studio in the billiard room in the basement of Toscanini's house in Riverdale (the Upper Bronx), piped tape-recorded music up to a giant speaker in the living room. When the spirit moved him, the old man sat in the living room listening to and judging the full-volume thunder of his orchestra. If a note or a phrase displeased him, he moved his head almost imperceptibly from side...
...ecstasy." At this stage many an older reader will recognize the names. An ex-anarchist named Michael Gold was converted; Eugene Debs declared himself a Bolshevik; Max Eastman was elated. Many a poor visionary in New York-remembering a fellow sometimes called Bronstein who had lived in The Bronx and would lecture for $10 a night-now felt the taste of vicarious power and destiny when he heard that this shabby comrade had become the great Trotsky, Commissar for Foreign Affairs...
...City Hall reporter for the New York World-Telegram, then, 2½ years ago, joined NBC's Manhattan station WRCA to become its first roving radio-TV reporter. "I've covered everything from the Andrea Doria sinking to the catching of a boa constrictor in a Bronx supermarket," says Pressman, who packs a 20-lb. tape recorder as habitually as a city room legman packs a batch of copy paper. "I'm not out to prove I'm superman but to show there's a need in radio and television for on-the-spot coverage...