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People! Nov. 18! Ethel Barrymore and a cargo of Bronx cheers for every performance! Of all the - -* women she undoubtedly takes the highest honors. In truck drivers it is temper, in artists it is temperament. . . . A lady...
...Michigan State's 140-lb. John Edward Bechtold. A resident of New York's Bronx, he returned almost unknown last week to his old stamping ground to win Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America's 5-mi. cross-country run. Judges, amazed at his unexpected victory, were further amazed that four of his teammates had also finished among the first eleven, had won the team title for the third straight year...
Died. Bernard Seymour Deutsch, 51, president of New York's Board of Aldermen and onetime (1929-March 1935) president of the American Jewish Congress; suddenly, of coronary thrombosis; at his home in The Bronx. Mr. Deutsch became active in politics in 1932, was elected to office on the Fusion ticket the following year. By his death Tammany Hall regains control of the Board of Estimate...
When two automobiles collided in Queens, N. Y. and one drove on without stopping, a bystander jotted down the license number, notified police. Few minutes later radios in Queens, Manhattan & Bronx police cars intoned: "Signal 32. Signal 32.* Stop car 1N-72-35 heading for New York, liable to cross Queensboro Bridge any moment." At Queensboro Bridge five patrolmen lay in wait, finally spotted car 1N-72-35 inching toward them in the heavy traffic. Training a repeating rifle on the burly driver, they ordered him out, gulped when they recognized George Herman ("Babe") Ruth...
...chief charm of the Bronx is the zoo. And, gentle readers, isn't that what makes the Vagabond the charming old rascal that he is--that he likes such things? What's the Cotton Club compared to a cage of acrobatic monkeys? Feed a fair one at the Ritz at two-fifty a plate; feed the animals in the zoo--but they won't let you--at five cents a bag--and much more fun! Philosopher thou art right: How distorted our sense of values is! Then on Friday the Vagabond heard Rudy Vallee at the Waldorf; on Sunday--with...