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...scarred and swarming tenements along Harlem's East 108th Street have changed little since Gambler Frank Costello was a boy. The towers of the Triborough Bridge now float in the sky just beyond their chimneys, and a snare-drum roll of traffic drifts up from the modern East River Drive. Negroes and Puerto Ricans choke the slums to west and north. But the old neighborhood is still Italian. Its sidewalk garbage cans (each with its cover chained to prevent theft), its great, voracious rats, its smells, its endless noise, are the same...
Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary will have a new president in July 1945. At the Seminary's 108th commencement last week it was announced that tall, able, energetic Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, professor of systematic theology, will succeed Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, who has been president for 19 years. Dr. Coffin will have reached 68, Union's retirement age, next June...
...108th combat ship launched by the Navy since its renaissance began...
...into North Africa centuries ago. The big New Orleans absinthe firm is L. E. Jung & Wulff Co. In 1926 Mr. Jung died worth some $250.000 and was succeeded by Mr. Wulff as president. Swank Son Frederick August Wulff is treasurer, plays crack polo and is a captain in the 108th Cavalry of Louisiana's National Guard, but the firm's "Grand Old Absinthe Man" is James Bartholomew Higgins, 78, who has been in absinthe for 63 years...
...Home: top floor of a six-story apartment house at Fifth Avenue & 108th Street-where Fashion leaves off and Negro Harlem almost begins...