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...Scarsdale, N. Y., Joan Marcuse, 2, wandered with a playmate of the same age three blocks to the Bronx River and fell in. The playmate trotted back to Joan Marcuse's home, told a nurse, who with a passerby fished out Joan Marcuse's body...
...Bronx, N. Y., a woman rushed up to a taxi driver, cried: "See that funny-looking woman . . . she's been following me!" The taxi driver grabbed the woman, found her to be one Joseph Coquelin, 46, manhandled him brutally. Arraigned in court, garbed in a tasty rose gown, cloche hat, high-heeled shoes, Joseph Coquelin said: "I have asthma, and feminine attire makes it more comfortable to breathe on my nightly walks." Father of two, Joseph Coquelin was jailed...
...owner of an apartment house in The Bronx last week wrote to the Department of Sanitation complaining of "conditions that exist on the side and rear of my house. ... It is ... a body of water commonly known as a swamp." He said that in the swamp subsisted "a large school of frogs. . . . The sound they make . . . is the most annoying thing I have ever heard. The few remaining tenants . . . threatened to move unless something is done about...
Last week forceful Dr. William Temple Hornaday, retired founder-director of New York City's Bronx Zoo and long Chief Taxidermist to the U. S. National Museum, writing on the stationery of the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund, criticized the new regulations as follows: "It is a pity to reduce those open seasons by halves, when it would have been both easy and safe to have adopted our recommendation of eight weeks instead of 12 or 14 weeks. We think that the duck-hunters of the United States now are so thoroughly scared (and with mighty good reason!) that they...
...Grant La Farge was first architect for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, succeeded in erecting the gigantic columns and romanesque choir, which his successor the mystically Gothic Ralph Adams is busily altering. Manhattanites remember Christopher Grant La Farge as designer of most of the buildings in the Bronx Zoo and of New York's subway kiosks. His two lank sons, both contributors to the family exhibition, are Christopher, known as "Kipper," and Oliver, known as "Ink." Kipper is an architect, likewise an able amateur actor. Ink is an ethnologist, .knows a vast deal about the Amerindians...