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This week the boy was back in his Bronx home convalescing...
...Bronx, New York City, Paul Duminuco, boss plasterer, strode through the echoing white chambers of a new building examining work of his underlings whose $4,500 payroll he carried in a satchel. As he clumped about on the third floor, strong hands seized him from behind, tore the satchel from his grasp, bound his wrists with wire. Cruel hands sloshed wet quicklime into his eyes, jammed wet mortar into his protesting mouth, flung him into a closet with his eyeballs sizzling, his teeth and tongue fast setting into their mortar plug. . . . Some hours later, Joe, laborer, rescued, doctors revived poor...
After he had blackened her eye at a party in the Bronx: "It required five men to subdue him and bind him until he became sober...
Under a railroad trestle and down a rutty stretch of frost-baked road near Van Cortlandt Park, the Bronx, loped a slender runner in a crimson jersey. He crested a hill and the autumn wind reached for him, baffling his breath like a hand laid over his mouth; he twisted his head to look for a rangy man who had been running at his side. For about half an hour these two, accompanied by 106 other runners from various eastern colleges, had been racing against each other over a six-mile trail for the hill-and-dale intercollegiate championship...
...plan for establishing game sanctuaries throughout the country-not a few large ones, but many medium sized ones-on land not well suited for other purposes, sanctuaries where wild life could multiply under complete protection and spread over the surrounding country. Of late he has been Director of the Bronx Zoological Garden of New York City, has raised it to a high rank among roos...