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...example; I was forced during the plague of prohibition to content myself with the mixing of soft drinks and the dishing out of ice cream. But I haven't forgotten how to mix a single drink, not a one. Off hand, I should say that the Martini and Bronx cocktail are about the most popular drinks thus far, but the majority of the drinking public, on the whole, are sampling the various concoctions to see what happens to their palates...
...Bronx. N. Y., Arline Robertson, 10. bouncing on her bed. bounced through a window, fell live stories, fractured her skull...
Gradually, however, as commodity prices failed to respond to the New Deal's magic wand, the President's monetary policy veered away from "hard money" toward depreciation of the dollar. That fitted better with Mr. Morgenthau's ideas. The elder Morgenthau, who made his millions in Bronx real estate, could probably afford to face inflation without undue anxiety, but Son Henry has long been known as more or less economically heterodox by training. Last week when the President made Henry Morgenthau Jr. not only Undersecretary but at the same time acting Secretary of the Treasury...
...persons who envied him his catch was Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed herpetologist of New York's Bronx Zoo. Ever since the night some 40 years ago when a bushmaster, sent by a Trinidad collector, chased him around his attic room, Dr. Ditmars has had a special regard for this snake. He has had three specimens, but the last one died 20 years ago. He went to Panama looking for one last year, again this year, with no luck...
Governor Ruby Laffoon made a Kentucky Colonel of Mae West, professional voluptuary.* In the same batch he made a Colonel of Miss Betsy Helburn, graduate of the University of Kentucky, dietitian of The Bronx's Lebanon Hospital. Said Colonel West in Hollywood: "I guess he wants me to help him keep his troops under control. When do I get my uniform...