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...Three Bronx Cheers...
...Sack. At Fort Lewis, Wash., Pfc. Sol Katz, back from leave in The Bronx, reported that he had lost his watch when a jewelry repair store was robbed, his uniform when the cleaners burned down, one of his medals to a thief on the train, his garrison cap, which he left in the baggage rack; found that he had returned from furlough a day early...
...claque. In the days of Impresario Giulio Gatti- Casazza, the chief of the Met's claque, a hardy Italian named Harold Lodovichetti, described himself on his business cards as "Promoter of Enthusiasm." The claque's present leader is a more conservative man, who lives in The Bronx and is known under the varied names of Schultz and Bennett. The Metropolitan switchboard keeps his telephone number on file for such artists as desire his services. And when the Met goes on tour, the resourceful Mr. Schultz-Bennett goes along to raise teams of local applauders...
...reconnaissance pilot was astonished at finding a V-2 zooming toward his plane over Europe, close enough for him to try for a picture. But the whooshing rocket was too quick for his camera and his plates showed only V-2's trail of vapor-"like a Bronx cheer in smoke...
Like many another soldier, Staff Sergeant Robert Raskin did not want to worry the folks back home. So he wrote to his wife in The Bronx that he had a nice safe job: switchboard operator in the Quartermaster Corps...