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Riverdale is as authentic an example of U.S. suburbia as diagonal parking and the 7:53. It reclines on a well-groomed, rocky hillside where The Bronx meets Westchester, gives glimpses of itself to commuters motoring by on the Henry Hudson Parkway. Its broad playing fields and ivied brick buildings, countrified by fieldstone fireplaces, are shaded by well-kept maples and oaks, bordered by neat shrubbery. At 9 each morning six big school busses and more than a dozen station wagons and cars roll up, unload well-scrubbed tots and adolescents from Bronxville, Yonkers, Tuckahoe, Riverdale, The Bronx, Manhattan...
Cigar-puffing, Bronx-born Milt Gross is mainly famous as the cartoonist who created the comic-strip sagas Dave's Delicatessen, That's My Pop! and Count Screwloose of Tooloose. But in his restless career among the fine and lively arts, Cartoonist Gross has also taken several whacks at writing (Nize Baby, Famous Fimmales from Heestory, etc.) and at serious landscape art. Last week Hollywood's Frank Perls Gallery was exhibiting the results of Cartoonist Gross's latest venture into fine art: 30 drawings of homely, tumbledown western farm and mining-town scenes. Artist Gross...
...Harlem's coffee-colored Ray Robinson; a prize fight with Welterweight Maxie Berger of The Bronx; scoring a technical knockout in 1 min. 43 sec. of the second round; in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. For Robinson, "the little Joe Louis," it was the 28th victory in a row since he turned professional a little more than a year ago. His next opponent will probably be Welterweight Champion Red Cochrane...
City News reporters and rewrite men were anonymous. In Manhattan and The Bronx they kept a 24-hour watch over every police station, court, jail, hospital, morgue, municipal building. City News election coverage was called the "greatest example of good reporting" on record. No matter what its staff, no big New York paper tried to get along without the news from "NYCNA...
...Bronx, the Navy notified Louise Clifton of her husband's death. She went to bed sobbing. Then a good German neighbor (a Mrs. Goering) advised her to eat a herring on New Year's Eve, make a wish. Louise did. At midnight a messenger boy knocked at her door. It was all a mistake: Coxswain Clarence Calvin Clifton is still alive...