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Abraham Goldberg of the Bronx, N. Y., added that the blame was not only Yevseksia's since if the Soviet Government did not approve of the persecution nobody would dare persecute. A resolution of ''protest and condemnation" was sent to President Hoover and Senator Borah of the Foreign Relations committee...
...power are usually necessary to make a fight exciting. Yet Eastern ring-watchers felt they had had a good evening last week after observing the earnest efforts of two little untitled men to knock each other out in ten rounds of fighting which looked, from the rim of the Bronx coliseum in which it took place, like a black ant and a dark-haired mosquito battering at each other...
...stories, simpler in design, are quite as effective. There Are Smiles records the encounters of a smart young thing in her smart new roadster with Ben Collins, traffic policeman. He chides her for reckless driving; she smiles, gives him a lift to his home in the Bronx. In conversational bicker, pleasantly casual, she touches upon the man her father wants her to marry; he warns her to drive carefully "for that guy's sake"-and for his. Next morning the cop's newspaper tells of her- death in a motor accident. Says the cop to himself...
...Bronx, N. Y., one Morris Goldstein, out-of-work, despondent, slashed his throat, began dictating his will to a policeman, changed his mind halfway through, offered $1,000 for a blood transfusion to save his life, was reported improving...
Helen Kane sings in an idiom and with an inflection peculiar to the Bronx, N. Y., where she grew up and where her father ran a neighborhood store. In vaudeville she was one of those fat, supernaturally stupid girls who serve up joke cues to dapper comedians. Later, in Broadway nightclubs, her fame spread as a singer of semi-salacious, contemporary folk songs. She sang with Paul Ash's orchestra, later in the musical comedy Good Boy. Young men in eastern colleges have voted for her as their favorite actress...