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Uptown New York (World Wide) is in a quieter vein than Central Park (see above), a three-cornered Bronx romance about a blonde Patricia (Shirley Grey) who marries a chewing gum salesman (Jack Oakie) after she has had a love affair with a successful surgeon (Leon Waycoff). The time comes when, to save Patricia's life after an accident, it is necessary for the surgeon to operate on her. Eddie, her husband, decides that after all Patricia likes the surgeon best; to facilitate her leaving him, he absents himself from home. When Patricia guesses what he has done...
...what is now New York City was two large cities, Brooklyn and New York. Staten Island was a collection of incorporated villages. In the consolidation of Greater New York, five boroughs were formed: Manhattan, The Bronx, Richmond (Staten Island), Brooklyn, Queens. Wasteful duplications of office resulted. New York City now has five "little Mayors" (borough presidents), five district attorneys, five sheriffs, an unwieldy Board of Aldermen (69 members). Its eight-man Board of Estimate can hamstring the Mayor at will. The present board has so notoriously scotched the economy program of Acting Mayor Joseph Vincent McKee and failed to economize...
...Plan for New York City is as follows: a municipal government headed by the Mayor, a Vice Mayor and a cabinet of ten department chiefs. The Vice Mayor would preside over a city Senate of eleven members: three each from Manhattan and Brooklyn, two each from Queens and The Bronx, one from Richmond. A city Assembly of 23 members would be formed, one member from each State Senatorial district in the city. There would be but one district attorney, one sheriff, no borough presidents. All executive functions of the city would be under the Mayor except the office of Comptroller...
...noteworthy departmental elisions were suggested by Citizen Smith. In a Department of Public Safety would be lumped the police and fire departments, the city inspection services. The education department would not only oversee the school system, but all museums, The Bronx Zoo, Grant's Tomb. Under the Smith Plan, the Governor, with the approval of the State Senate, would appoint superior court judges for life, with 70 as the retirement age. The Mayor would appoint magistrates to the lower courts under the same terms...
...Yorkers one day last week to find lying exhausted in their streets some black & white, thick-beaked birds they had never seen before. Not since 1908 had such a bird appeared in the city, and it had arrived on shipboard. Most finders promptly called or hurried to the Bronx Zoo, learned the fallen strangers were little auks, cousins of the least auklet and the extinct great auk. Winging southward from their Arctic loomeries,they had been blown inland by a 65-m. p. h. gale...