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...case, cooper Raymond Grimm found inside a package holding 50 one-lb. tins of TNT. They were labeled "U.S. Corps of Engineers-TNT-For Front Line Demolition Only." Customs men opened 25 other cases, found a total of 65,000 lbs. of TNT. Later in a warehouse in The Bronx, New York City police found stencils which matched the addresses on the TNT cases: "Haboreg, Ltd., Tel Aviv...
...publicize Navy Day, Rear Admiral Monroe Kelly, commandant of the Third Naval District, turned over his command for the day to James F. Rappaport, 14, of The Bronx. Settling back in the admiral's chair, young Rappaport announced: "When I grow up I want to be a lawyer...
...Paris the fierce young captain stopped off in Manhattan and met José Clemente Orozco, who was painting toys in a factory. Siqueiros told Orozco he thought the subway was one of the loveliest things he had ever seen. Riding a hurtling Bronx express, they quarreled violently about it. When the train stopped, Orozco dashed out and disappeared into a blinding snowstorm. Siqueiros waited all night in the subway entrance, making occasional forays into the night, fearful that a great Mexican talent was freezing to death somewhere under the alien snow. Two days later Siqueiros learned that his angry friend...
...last week in New York, some of these normally inaudible sounds were accidentally overheard. Cops started punching the wrong people and the people started yelling. The first was a Bronx candy dealer named Samuel Grossman. He complained that a patrolman had jerked him out of his car, accused him of annoying a woman pedestrian, and punched him in the face...
...bitter end Bob Hannegan and some of the old big-city bosses-Chicago's Ed Kelly and The Bronx's Ed Flynn-had plugged hard to get the job for Gael Sullivan, the committee's executive director and a favorite of the C.I.O. Sullivan, they insisted, was the man to rally labor and the party's liberals and left-wingers. But Harry Truman insisted on making his own choice. The appointment of McGrath continued the tradition, begun with Jim Farley, of naming an Irish Catholic as chairman of the Democratic Committee...