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These episodes of life in The Bronx have for principal characters Bella Gross, a private secretary who will not let herself be called a stenographer; her father and mother; and the young man she thinks occasionally of marrying, Max Fine, a C.P.A. who will not let himself be called a bookkeeper. All the stories (originally printed in The New Yorker and now illustrated by The New Yorker's Sydney Hoff) achieve the distinction of being not only funny but sympathetic...
Experts deny that there is a trend away from suspension bridges, though one such U.S. bridge (Washington's Tacoma Narrows Bridge) buckled in a high wind last November, and last year's prizewinner (the feathery Bronx-Whitestone Bridge) has recently been equipped with diagonal stays to check its oscillations. The Susquehanna River Bridge, which won the big bridge prize this year, is a type of bridge using the relatively new Wichert Truss which needs less steel and spreads to take up extra stress when its piers settle in soft river bottoms. It was built at a cost...
Installed at last in the Hall of Fame (owner: New York University; place: The Bronx) was homespun, star-spangled Composer Stephen Collins Foster (My Old Kentucky Home, Old Black Joe), whose bust was unveiled with elaborate ceremonies and the blessings of many organizations, including ASCAP...
...last February Pandora, now age 3, began to toy with her Pablum mash. Gradually she sickened, by last week was having convulsions. One day police sirens screamed from The Bronx to Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center ahead of a zoo station wagon. Pandora, quieted by nembutal, was lifted in a stretcher, borne into the famed Neurological Institute, whisked to the tenth-floor X-ray room...
This week CBS presents a radio play written around an instrument on which millions of small boys make the air horrible-a mouth organ. This harmonica is tootled with utmost purity by Larry Adler, at 27 the world's greatest harmonicist. Soon The Bronx Symphony Orchestra, 70-piece group which has been rehearsing for months, will play with Larry Adler as harmonica artist. He will blow, note for note, the solo part of a classic concerto originally written for the violin, Vivaldi's A Minor. For Virtuoso Adler, such symphonic antics are nothing new. Nor do most people...