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...service by picturing in a decent way the facts about the birth of a baby which every child should know," New York State's Knights of Columbus complained to New York City's five county district attorneys. Result was that District Attorney Samuel L. Foley of The Bronx arrested four news dealers for selling indecent literature. LIFE prepared to defend them, as it did dealers in Boston...
Ideas included a new technique developed by German psychologists, for revealing musical talent in one-year-old infants. System: Stimulate subject 1) by striking a clear-toned bell. 2) by uttering a Bronx cheer. If subject goo-goos pleasure at sound of bell and cries at sound of Bronx cheer, musical talent is not necessarily proved, may be reasonably suspected...
...Johnson, having listened with his fellow judges to 707 auditions, announced the winners for 1937-38. Presented with a contract, $1,000 and a silver plaque apiece were handsome, smooth-faced Brooklyn Tenor John Carter (Nelson Eddy's successor on the Chase & Sanborn Hour) and slick-haired, muscular Bronx Baritone Leonard Warren. Twenty-five-year-old Tenor Carter studied to be a civil engineer, gave up engineering to study voice. Baritone Warren was brought up in his Russian-born father's fur business, studied singing for five years before presenting himself as a contestant, sings today in five...
...collection of art and art objects has never been catalogued except in its owner's capacious memory, but its monstrous character has been a popular legend for years. Last autumn the New Yorker tried to investigate one of the five Hearst warehouses, a square block building in The Bronx, and reported rumors that besides a dim array of armor and some mummies it contained two palaces and a church, in pieces...
...Hearst warehouses, his hodgepodge includes thousands of pieces of furniture, tapestries, armor, and hundreds of paintings including a few estimable Bouchers, Van Dycks, Rembrandts. Corrected by precise Agent Parish-Watson last week was the New Yorker's, tale of the palaces stored in The Bronx warehouse. What is actually there is a 12th-Century Spanish monastery, in 10,000 boxes...