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Dates: during 1940-1940
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These fancy street-cleaning wagons are only one of several public-health improvements which have taken place in New York City during the last six years. Others were enumerated last week in a little volume published by Health Commissioner John Levi Rice. Title: Advances in New York City's Health. Edited by Savel Zimand (known to some colleagues as "Zymole Trokeys"), the report was quickly gobbled up by colleges all over the U. S. as a reference book on public health. The few remaining copies now rest in the Department's safe. Excerpts...
Reticent about discussing money, Oboler admits he is making twice as much as anybody should. He is having Frank Lloyd Wright design a $20,000 house for a 25-acre mountaintop he owns in the Santa Monica Mountains overlooking the Pacific. Feature of the place (name: "Aeire") is a stream which according to present plans will run through the Oboler living room. On his mountaintop Oboler plans to do further experimental work for the radio. He realizes his responsibilities. "I have," he says, "a larger audience now than Shakespeare ever...
...Forbes's early interviews was with a member of the Japanese Imperial Family. The place: a hotel bathroom in Durban, S. Africa, with His Highness...
...when the Wall Street Journal listed the profitmakers last week, steel fans got a surprise. First-place honors went neither to U. S. (fifth) nor Bethlehem (third), but to a steel company just two years old, Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. Up from $1.51 a ton in long's first nine months to $6.16 a ton this year were Allegheny-Ludlum's profits. Reason...
...sections which DeVoto has edited include Twain's onslaughts on Roosevelt I, his profoundly worried comments on the state of the nation, boyhood reminiscences (which seem curiously out of place), vitriolic sketches of famous people. Wrote Twain of Roosevelt I: "Mr. Roosevelt has done what he could to destroy the industries of the country, and they all stand now in a half-wrecked condition and waiting in an ague to see what he will do next. . . . Mr. Roosevelt is the most formidable disaster that has befallen the country since the Civil War-but the vast mass of the nation...