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...Bronx Borough President James J. Lyons spread his neo-Babylonian banquet for the Security Councilmen at the Grand Concourse Plaza Hotel, Iran seemed far away indeed. Marshaled (vainly) to convince the U.N. that they should not move out of the hospitable Bronx were steaks, caviar, champagne and a three-piece band to play Meadowland for Delegate Gromyko. But no sooner had the last mellow tones subsided than the jarring discords of the supposedly settled Iran issue again filled...
From This Day Forward (RKO Radio) is a tardy but sincere filming of Thomas Bell's All Brides Are Beautiful, a novel (1936) about Depression in The Bronx. Its theme: the effort of decent, poor newlyweds to live as well as they can. Its thesis: love and fortitude can handle anything that economic injustice throws their way. The story is told mainly in flashbacks as Bill Cummings (Mark Stevens) goes through his old, familiar, woeful process of looking...
...Elson's only assistant at U.N. in The Bronx is Visson-but he has a very important function. Russian-born and a onetime European journalist, he has the job of seeing that we get the full drama and feel of the meeting. You have to hear the delegates speak and know what they are saying in their own tongues to catch the full flavor and sharpness of the debate. It also helps to be able to talk to them between sessions in their own languages...
With its Iranian sprain nearly healed, the United Nations could settle back and think about their lease on The Bronx's Hunter College. But not for long. The lease expired May 15, and New York City, the owner, was hinting that it wanted Hunter back for its dispossessed young females...
Paladino has never visited the U.S., though his wife Francesca lived 24 years in The Bronx. But he is very conscious of the part Italians have played in U.S. history. "It has already been proved on the American continent," he says, "that American capital and Italian labor together can achieve wonderful things. . . . I believe we can make a substantial contribution...