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Miss McDowell waited around. She talked with a woman from The Bronx ("which shows the world is not so big"). She gave her letter to the Pope's majordomo. She wondered if perhaps someone would tell the Holy Father that "for 27 years I have written virtually all the leading Catholic news in the New York Times." Finally the Pope appeared. The roomful of people knelt as he made the sign of the cross. Then Pius XI began making his rounds while Rachel McDowell anxiously hoped he would not skip...
...Bronx, Mrs. Jeannette Ranola, 27, mother of three, was arrested on the charge of having stolen a 75-lb. steel safe from Frank Werner, carried it down five flights of stairs to a taxi, up four flights to her own apartment, then down again and by subway to a friend's apartment where she broke it open...
Last of the great pre-Repeal gangsters left alive or at liberty is blank-faced, chicken-hearted Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy-game racket. "The cooler ain't never so cold as the morgue," quavered this pulpy nervous underworking last winter on giving himself up on a Federal charge of evading $92,103.34 in taxes on a 1929-31 income of $481,637.35. At his trial in Syracuse, N. Y. last spring he got a hung jury. Last week in rural Malone...
Having sung ably at Detroit's International Music Festival (TIME, June 3), the 200 members of the Chrysler Motors male choir reassembled in Detroit last month, lustily sang 15 selections before a microphone. A telephone wire carried the sound to The Bronx where Muzak Corp., run by Chrysler Director Waddill Catchings, recorded it on eight disks by a new process which catches more sound vibrations per second than do others currently in use. The records were made by special order of Walter P. Chrysler, who is distinctly proud of the choir which grew spontaneously in his factory. Motorman Chrysler...
...Memorial on Riverside Drive, notable for its expressive woman & child group. One of his best works is the pediment on the Frick house in Manhattan, a poetic and satisfying solution of the problem of putting a man and a tree into a segment space. Other fine work: The Bronx's Columbus Monument, Albany's Mother's Monument, Richmond, Va.'s bust of Thomas Jefferson...