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During the U.S. evacuation of the Hungnam beachhead last year, a key outer defense point was a ridge on the exposed eastern flank. For 30 hours an infantry platoon of the 3rd Division, commanded by ist Lieut. Harry E. Sutton, 30, of The Bronx, beat off enemy attacks, refused to retreat even when part of the U.S. line was overrun. Lieutenant Sutton won the Silver Star for leading a bayonet charge which dug out the enemy and restored the position. Greater honor, perhaps, than the Silver Star was the fact that his fellow soldiers and superior officers referred...
Died. Henry W. (Harry) Armstrong, 71, who at 17 wrote the music to Sweet Adeline; after long illness; in The Bronx, N.Y. Called My Old New England Home when written in 1896, the song was not published until seven years and several revisions later, eventually spread through vaudeville, tavern, and singing society to become the nation's favorite drinking ballad. Composer Armstrong, who also wrote / Love My Wife, but, Oh You Kid, made close to $100,000 from Sweet Adeline...
...when he left his home in Italy and set out for America. He was a sensible boy, but crossing the Atlantic was a great adventure, and, in the back of his mind, he looked for wonders in America. "That was 40 years ago," he said last week in his Bronx barber shop. "So long it seems like a dream...
Each year, the letters multiplied. They came by the dozen, then the score, then by the hundreds. All over Italy, it seemed, people knew of "Frank's Barber Shop, 629 Westchester Ave., The Bronx, New York, U.S.A." Francesco toiled to answer them. To get old clothes he plagued his friends, neighbors, customers, the men at the station house; he haunted Salvation Army stores and the Jewish thrift shop. He sent every cent he could possibly spare...
Jake LaMotta, middleweight champion of the world up to last week, is a stolid, truculent fighter with a good punch and a Gibraltar jaw. In 95 fights, deep-chested Jake has never been knocked off his feet. For this combination of qualities, Jake is nicknamed "The Bronx Bull." It was Jake's misfortune last week to defend his title for 13 rounds against Sugar Ray Robinson, the welterweight* champion, a man for whom no completely adequate nickname has yet been invented. Pound for pound, Sugar Ray is the best fighter now wearing gloves. Meeting him in Chicago Stadium, Jake...