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Last week Newark, N.J. was the field of the jitterbug's equivalent to ordeal by battle. Benny Goodman, who for four years has reigned in adolescent hearts as the King of Swing, was playing on the stage at the Shubert Theatre. Within shagging distance, at the neighboring Paramount, was Artie Shaw, young pretender to the throne, and his band, which in six months has zoomed to fame on the strength of a few rousing records. A clear-cut battle for supremacy was forecast: the theatres are of approximately equal size; each was showing a Grade B film...
Divorced. Edward ("Mickey") Walker, 37, onetime world's middleweight and welterweight boxing champion; by Clara Frances Walker, 27; in Newark...
...never missed an engagement. But in those 58 weeks, he "ran the entire gamut of airplane adventure except for being killed." He was gashed and kayoed when bumpy air over the troublesome Nittany Mountains conked him against an overhead baggage rack. He once watched ambulances gather below him at Newark when his ship could not get its landing gear down. He weathered innumerable forced landings and is one of the few air travelers who ever landed on an airport backwards. On that occasion the pilot overshot Chicago airport, bounced off the far end of the runway, cleared an embankment...
...Newark, N. J., Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Gardiner's two-story frame house caught fire. Awakened by the smoke, Mrs. Gardiner's sister wrapped one-month-old Kevin Gardiner in blankets, called to men in the yard, and dropped the baby from the second-story window. In the smoke and darkness they thought she was tossing a bundle of clothes, let it fall, dragged it 20 feet from the house, left it in the snow. Half an hour later a fireman heard the baby cry, picked it up unharmed...
Ready for mounting in Courtroom No. 4 of the Federal court & postoffice building at Newark. N. J. was a two-panel mural by 26-year-old Artist Tanner M. Clark of Somerville. N. J.. who devoted two and one-half years and 500 egg yolks* to depicting the role of courts in protecting children. One of his panels portrayed happy schoolboys at play; the other, a factory machine slicing off a working girl's hand...