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REGINA SILVERMAN The Bronx...
...Square Garden ring with Carter last week they were betting 4 to 1 that he was still a billygoat from Brooklyn, a clumsy, light-punching brawler who had won a couple of big fights by butting, bunny-hugging and hitting on the breaks. Champion Carter, a Negro from The Bronx, was an old pro, too good, and too smart to be taken when his title was on the line...
...Official eyes are closed or hastily averted from the increasing outbreaks of assaults with deadly weapons . . . While a student riot brimmed over into the streets in front of The Bronx's Walton High . . . a harried school official could think only of keeping the news of it from the press. 'We want to keep this down,' she pleaded. 'We want no publicity.' And this at a girls' school (enrollment: 3,150), where the situation is described by teachers and students as a 'powder keg,' with girls arming themselves with knives-their...
...asked a Bronx shopkeeper whose windows had been broken time after time by children from adjacent P.S. 51 . . . why he didn't take his case to the school principal. 'I should go to him?' he jeered. 'They break all his windows...
...Bronx-born Soprano .Peters likes it that way. For a brief three months she was married to Met Baritone Robert Merrill, but thinks for the present that marriage and the intensive work of a young career soprano do not mix. Last week, after her impromptu success in Figaro, Soprano Peters went off to a celebrative late supper of spaghetti with clam sauce with her father, her mother and her music teacher...