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ABRAHAM BAUM Bronx...
...upstate New York when promoters were too poor or too parsimonious to pay for licenses, Ambers is 22, untemperamental, attached to numerous other D'Ambrosios by those ties of affection which all right-thinking young pugilists consider themselves conventionally compelled to profess. He makes his home in a Bronx apartment run for him by his sister, often drives to Herkimer for weekends with his mother, hopes to organize the nine D'Ambrosio children into a jazz band in which he will play banjo and clarinet. Last spring, one of his opponents died as the result of cracking...
...ENCHANTED VOYAGE-Robert Nathan-Knopf ($2). Very slight fantasy about a Bronx carpenter who built a four-wheeled sailing ship in his backyard, embarked in it over the roads of Pennsylvania, Maryland and the South...
Uniting The Bronx, Manhattan and Queens by means of an enormous steel and concrete Y, the Triborough Bridge represents the biggest single thing New York City has so far got out of the New Deal. The Federal Government lent $35,000,000, gave $9,200,000 towards its construction. Largely because of this heavy stake, President Roosevelt went to New York City last week to dedicate the new bridge. Chief engineer of the Triborough was Othmar Hermann Ammann, who swung the Port of New York Authority's huge George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River. When his turn came...
...suspension bridge across Hell Gate to Wards Island, whence the elevated highway turns north to Randalls Island. There occurs the Y's split, one arm reaching across the Harlem River on the world's biggest (but not heaviest) lift bridge to Manhattan, the other crossing The Bronx Kills to the mainland by means of three truss spans...