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...automobiles collided in Queens, N. Y. and one drove on without stopping, a bystander jotted down the license number, notified police. Few minutes later radios in Queens, Manhattan & Bronx police cars intoned: "Signal 32. Signal 32.* Stop car 1N-72-35 heading for New York, liable to cross Queensboro Bridge any moment." At Queensboro Bridge five patrolmen lay in wait, finally spotted car 1N-72-35 inching toward them in the heavy traffic. Training a repeating rifle on the burly driver, they ordered him out, gulped when they recognized George Herman ("Babe") Ruth...
Died. Gustav Lindenthal, 85, famed U. S. bridge builder; after long illness; in Metuchen, N. J. Builder of the Hell Gate. Manhattan and Queensboro Bridges, Austrian-born Engineer Lindenthal's fondest dream was never fulfilled: a giant span across the Hudson River at 57th Street, opposed by the War Department for reasons of wartime navigation. Also built by Engineer Lindenthal were Pennsylvania R. R.'s Hudson and East River tunnels...
Continental Europe's longest bridge cannot compare in size or expense with the great bridges of the U. S. Half the length of the Queensboro Bridge in Manhattan, it cost tiny Denmark $8,000,000, or slightly more than has been set aside to build the approaches to the great San Francisco-Oakland bridge...
Between Manhattan and smoky Queens lies a thin strip of grey land with grey buildings in the middle of the sludgy grey waters of the East River. It used to be called Blackwell's Island. In 1921 its name was changed to Welfare Island. Motorists crossing the Queensboro Bridge span it in daily thousands. Wealthy socialites in their riverfront apartments pay big money to look at it. But Welfare Island is not a nice place to visit and nobody would want to live there. It is the site of the New York County Penitentiary...
Early one morning last week several carloads of men, led by New York City's thin, purse-lipped new Commissioner of Correction Austin Harbutt MacCormick and his stocky aid David Marcus, descended the elevator from the Queensboro Bridge, made Welfare Island a surprise visit. By sundown Commissioner MacCormick had lifted the lid off Welfare Island and given city. State and nation a terrifying glimpse into the nether depths of prison life. "The worst prison in the world," pronounced Commissioner MacCormick, whom new Fusion Mayor LaGuardia had enlisted from the Federal Bureau of Prisons to clean up penal scandals left...