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...when she scaled almost 200 Ibs.), slim (5 ft. 7 in., 132 Ibs.) Maria will make her Metropolitan Opera debut late this month. No process servers greeted her at New York's Idlewild Airport, and Prima Donna Callas fell happily into the arms of her papa, a Bronx pharmacist...
Youth and the yawning expanses of Yankee Stadium had been the undoing of the aging Dodgers. Hits that would have sailed into the Ebbets Field stands for homers settled in Yankee gloves for long outs. Pitchers that the Dodgers had murdered in Brooklyn beat them handily in The Bronx. Brooklyn fans, talking of winning four straight after the Dodgers' first two thumping victories, suddenly recognized that something had gone out of Brooklyn's aging pros...
...through this, then, my boy . . . your guts will ache with passion for the Happy Land, the glorious country with the bright Sunday evening wink of the Chop Suey signs, the roar of the elevated, the sounds of the radio . . . and the peaceful noise of millions of Jews in the Bronx slowly turning the 237 pages of the New York Sunday Times...
...deposits high-priority letters, Author Ernest ("Papa") Hemingway and wife Mary slippe'd undetected into the canyons of Manhattan, enjoyed some semisecret days of fleshpot scouring without revealing his resting place ("I just want to confuse the hell out of Celebrity Service"), made a special excursion to the Bronx Zoo to converse with its two hippos ("I needed Miss Mary around for the grammar"), slipped off as quietly as he had arrived for a sojourn in Europe...
...years ago, Bronx-born Songstress Gormé had reached the eminent position of export manager for a theatrical-equipment company, reached TV via dance-band and nightclub jobs. On TV she has sung while sitting on a bough overhanging the Niagara River hard by the falls, and with a high wind snatching the notes from her throat atop the RCA Building. Last winter, just before an 8 o'clock TV rehearsal, a call came: Would she appear on the 9:30 show at the Copacabana that night? The regular star, Billy Daniels, had been accused of shooting somebody...