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...excitement at the Westchester Institute of Fine Arts finally attracted one John Smiukse. Born in Latvia 26 years ago, John Smiukse went to sea, jumped ship in New York harbor seven years ago and has been making a precarious living as a house painter in the Bronx while trying to paint pictures in his spare time...
...attend Trinity's daily noonday service. Six or eight old-fashioned limousines still roll downtown each Sunday morning, bearing Cranes, Dixes, Livingstons, Burleighs to church. But most of Trinity's Sunday congregation, which averages around 200, now comes by subway and ferry from Brooklyn, Staten Island, The Bronx...
Wheeonk, blared the bugle of Dr. Walter Baker. The band struck up the "Sidewalks of New York." Cornell-Rockefeller Hospitals' entry, Bronx Cheer (by Simple Simon, out of the East River), was coming into the ring. The white-trousered, white-skirted crowd pressed closer, gabbled excitedly. Was it true that the Accident Ward had given the Obstetrical Clinic's Lucky Miss (by Chance, out of Wedlock) a shot of morphine? The band struck up "La Marseillaise." Pourquoi Pas, entered by a young French nurse, was coming in. Over by the administration building two doctor-bookies gathered...
...place. The line of graduates surged up, rippled across the stage. The portly trustee pumped each well-scrubbed right hand, thrust a diploma into the left, grinned, murmured "Congratulations." Each presentation took four seconds. On & on they came - bakers from Brooklyn, mechanics from Manhattan, soda-jerkers from The Bronx, clerks from Jersey. Cooper Union is free and many students have fulltime jobs outside. Fifteen minutes passed and the Free Hand Drawing classes appeared. The portly trustee was now trying to keep his right hand behind his back. It was no use. He grew confused, began mixing certificates. One flipped...
...very long chain of luck that gave $150,000 to a Bronx, N. Y. restaurant chef named William Meringer. He had a wonderful recipe for hasenpfeffer. An anonymous patron had a ticket in the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes on Golden Miller. The patron went to the restaurant, ordered hasenpfeffer, ate three plates of it, called in Chef Meringer and gave him his ticket. Golden Miller won the Grand National (TIME, April...