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When Max Herskovitz got back home to The Bronx from a Jap internment camp in China, he found a check for $67. The money was from New York's Associated Hospital Service to reimburse him for a bill he paid to Shanghai's County Hospital last July. All the time he was interned, Mrs. Herskovitz had faithfully kept up the insurance payments...
June. In a Bronx courtroom, Mrs. Ella Taffe charged that when she complained to Joseph Scott, butcher, about a chicken he had sold her, he hit her over the head ten times with a side of beef...
April. In a Bronx court, Mrs. Rose Hein complained that she had found John Looney intruding in her bedroom, said he had told her that he was "looking for a Mr. Grossman, a furrier." Mr. Looney told the judge that he was really trying to peddle some...
...Aviv, built mainly by American Zionists, is also an attraction. Says Chaplain Morrison: "It is the nearest thing to the U.S. that you will find in the Near East. Almost everyone speaks English. You'll hear many a Bronx accent. There are nice-looking girls, excellent beaches, and best of all, good cold beer. A bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon coming out of the desert is quite a treat...
...Manhattan and The Bronx,, voters sent to their State Supreme Court, to serve for 14 years at a salary of $22,500 yearly (total: $315,000), a scandal-tarred candidate named Thomas A. Aurelio. Thus ended an object lesson in perversion of the democratic process...