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...Fisher's Children's Crusade was on the march in 250,000 schools throughout the U. S., and in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone. Into 1,000,000 mite boxes children dropped one penny for each year of their age. In New York City's Bronx, 150 moppets (aged five to 16) in the Colored Orphan Asylum raised $3.50 by giving up their Sunday dinner ration of ice cream, though the sacrifice made crusaders quiver (see cut). Said President Roosevelt reassuringly: "Every child in America ought to feel vividly the suffering and loneliness experienced...
...William Saroyan; produced by The Theatre Guild in association with Eddie Dowling). Opening the night before the New York Drama Critics Circle voted Saroyan's The Time of Your Life the best play of the season, his Love's Old Sweet Song gave the verdict a Bronx cheer. An adolescent free-for-all, with characters more like Mexican jumping beans than people, Love's Old Sweet Song is a travesty on many things, including the art of William Saroyan...
Herbert A. Waterman, of San Francisco, S. B. University of California '40, Hale Fund scholarship; Richard L., Hirshberg, of Cleveland, A. B. Oberlin College '40, Rutherford B. Hayes scholarship; David B. Carlson, of Rahway, N. J., A. B. Brown '40, Reuben B. Hutchcraft scholarship; Austin D. Goldman, of Bronx, N. Y., B. S. S. College of the City of New York '40, Kirkpatrick scholarship; Garfield H. Horny '40, of Long Beach, Calif., Kirkpatrick scholarship...
...Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes, because of wartime mail restrictions, collected only $700,000 instead of the customary $10,000,000. Only two tickets were drawn on each starting horse instead of the customary dozen or more. In the U. S., only one person held a ticket on Bogskar: an ex-Bronx prize fighter named August Ruggiere, who hit the jackpot for $105,000 last week just as he was beginning to wonder where his next hamburger was coming from...
...Raymond never develop their reference to a fact which would seem highly relevant to the present hullabaloo in Brooklyn: "The reduction of Tammany to the status of a borough organization in Manhattan, the borough of diminishing population, and . . . the rise of other and stronger bosses in Brooklyn and The Bronx. . . ." Their mobsters generally remain two-dimensional. One who comes terribly to life, however, is slug-faced Arthur Flegenheimer, who as "Dutch Schultz" went from beer-running to the numbers racket and in his heyday treated Tammany Boss James J. Hines as his stooge. If Gang Rule In New York contained...