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Around a corner in The Bronx scuttled a wild-eyed runt. The kid's tiny round head was ducked between high, skinny shoulders, his nose was bleeding, and he sobbed as he ran. After him pounded three bigger boys. One by one they gave up the chase; the runt ran too fast. He ran until he was out of sight. He is running still...
...father was a peddler who would rather have been a poet. "When people were doing passementerie," says Billy, "he was in fringe." On the fringe is where the Rosenbergs lived. They never held on to a set of rooms for long; it was cheaper to move (to The Bronx or to Brooklyn) than pay the rent...
...runt from The Bronx has indeed put on weight-and he intends to keep throwing it around. "I like my politics," says middle-of-Broadway Billy, "and now & then I'm going to make them known in the column. I think I'll be able to have some influence on the 1948 election. Oh, I'm going to be quite a fellow in these next few years." If Billy keeps running, the rest of the population may eventually need an equalizer...
...Patricia V. Forth [TIME, May 5], and others who consider student veterans' wives a mentally and physically lazy group in danger of boring their husbands to death, a spirited Bronx cheer...
...Miss Ryerson for emergency help in verifying the medical details of news stories. What she doesn't know, she can, of course, find out-sometimes with engaging results. Asked one day what items went into an emergency kit for snake bite, she called a herpetologist at the Bronx Zoo to make sure. The excited zooman refused to tell her a thing until she told him what kind of poisonous reptile had bitten...