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...Pictures Living It Up (Paramount) is a screen version of Hazel Flagg, the Broadway musical, which was in turn a retuning of filmdom's famous Bronx cheer for Manhattan, Nothing Sacred (1937) Jerry Lewis now plays Carole Lombard's movie part. Alas, Carole was prettier. She was also funnier. And Janet Leigh, playing the old Fredric March part, adds body to the fun but no flavor. Somewhere along the production line the rasp has been strained out of the raspberry, but what's left is still the pleasantest session with Jerry Lewis and Partner Dean Martin...
...Yankee dugout, Charles Dillon Stengel, visiting "Perfessor" from The Bronx, shuffled, scratched and sprawled elegantly, then announced in learned accents that any fool could see who was holding those Cleveland Indians up in first place. Old Casey scowled across the green infield of Cleveland's Municipal Stadium: "That young feller," he gestured grandly, "that feller's a ball player. He'll give you the works every time. Gets all the hits, gives you the hard tag in the field. That feller's a real competitor, you bet your sweet curse life...
...example, in The Bronx, Martin Frankel, a Dodge-Plymouth sales manager, was throwing in a mink stole, which he said was valued at $786, with each new-car purchase. The dealer got the idea when a wife refused to let her husband buy a new car because she wanted a fur coat instead...
When Alexander Smith decided to move his carpet-weaving company out of The Bronx 90 years ago, he picked the hustling little town of Yonkers, in the lower part of New York's Westchester County, for his new plant. The choice proved a good one. From a small, wooden factory, Smith expanded until he became one of the biggest employers in Yonkers.† Just before World War II employment at the plant rose to a peak of 7,000. In 1948 profits hit a high of almost $7,000,000 and the plant, sprawling over 56 acres, was known...
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