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...stairs of a tenement house whose occupants lay sleeping. Watchman Preston, once a probationary fireman at Lynn, Mass., tearfully told police he took a few drinks every time he got a headache, set fires for excitement every time he took a few drinks. When he accompanied them to The Bronx, pointed out nine buildings he had previously fired, police believed they had cleared up a series of incendiary fires that have terrorized Bronx dwellers for two years. Firebug Preston carefully guided them, past locations where incendiary fires resulted fatally, pointed only to addresses where no lives were lost. Said...
Edward Anderson, an unemployed iron worker from The Bronx, is in the habit of copying newspaper photographs in his spare time, and these, too, were exhibited...
Died. William Preston Johnson Gibson, 57, famed oldtime society playboy, son of Louisiana's late Senator Randall Lee Gibson, nephew of the late Chief Justice Edward Douglass White; of heart disease, complicated by uremia; in The Bronx. He successively married and was divorced by Minna Field, niece of Chicago's late Marshall Field; Grace McMillan Jarvis, granddaughter of Michigan's late Senator James McMillan; Mrs. Beatrice Rogers Benjamin Pratt, granddaughter of the late Standard Oilman Henry Huddleston Rogers; and Evelyn Harris Spaulding of Haverhill, Mass. He squandered $4,000,000 of his wives' money on parties...
...York Jews which dot the Berkshires. Those who have not visited such a resort as Camp Kare-Free may already be familiar with the nature of its patrons through Arthur Kober's piteous, humorous, sharply observed New Yorker reports, collected in book form as Thunder over The Bronx, on the year-round behavior of one-sixth of New York City's population...
...Isadore Polisuk, a Bronx dress manufacturer, went down to a Greenwich Village little theatre to see Hard Pan, an 1849 gold-digging drama by one Edward Eustace. Mr. Polisuk was anxious to take a flier in show business, where shoestrings occasionally lead to fortunes. He offered Mr. Eustace Sioo for his play. Playwright Eustace took...