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Native Land. In Balboa, C.Z., homesick Technical Sergeant David Green got his greatest wish granted through the mails-a handful of dirt from The Bronx...
...Bronx saloon one night last week, something large and loathsome zoomed through the air, plopped on the bar, waved long, quivering antennae at Customer Michael X. McDermott. Customer McDermott, who had drunk two beers and was looking forward to more, changed his plans in midswallow and beat a hasty departure...
Next day Mike McDermott was vindicated: New York City newspapers were full of stories of The Bronx's flying cockroaches. They came up from the sewers at night, took off, landed indiscriminately on bars, dinner tables, department-store counters, people...
...Manhattan, bicycle renters were never busier, round-the-island pleasure boats and Hudson River excursion cruises were jammed, The Bronx zoo expected the biggest attendance in its history...
Died. Reginald Bathurst ("Reggie") Birch, 87, famed Victorian illustrator; in The Bronx Home for Incurables. Born in London, Bon Vivant Birch illustrated scores of magazines and books. For his drawings for Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy (which brought its author $350,000), Birch said he got $400 and two theater tickets...