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...Bronx, Babe Ruth put on his old uniform for the last time: in a homeplate ceremony at Yankee Stadium the uniform was formally presented to the Hall of Fame and National Baseball Museum at Cooperstown, N.Y., and the Bambino's celebrated old number 3 was officially retired, never again to identify a Yankee...
...organism without a memory. Fifty years ago its five boroughs-Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and The Bronx-were joined into one big city. But most of its citizens are vaguely surprised at plans for celebrating this golden anniversary-starting with a monster parade up Fifth Avenue next week. They leave this sort of historic memory to Philadelphia, at which they jeer; to Boston, which they pity; Or to Atlanta, a place near Miami, and where the Civil War was fought. New York is hypnotized by the present-which, after all, is equipped with television and a big bull market...
...Federal Communications Commission prepared to receive its first woman member: blonde, 43-year-old Frieda B. Hennock, a Manhattan corporation lawyer, who was named last week by President Truman -to succeed Commissioner Clifford J. Durr, who resigned. (She still has to be confirmed by the Senate.) Polish-born, Bronx-bred Miss Hennock was the youngest woman (21) ever admitted to the New York bar. A graduate of Brooklyn Law School, she hopes to represent the women who "comprise radio's biggest audience...
Incriminating Evidence. In The Bronx,N.Y., Robert Rogers noticed that his car had been broken into, quickly drove to the police station, delivered the culprit he had noticed hiding huddled in the back seat...
Fancy Free. In The Bronx, N.Y., William Storgoff, who was charged with grand larceny, forgery and impersonation, bore a tattoo reading "Death Before Dishonor...