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Harvard Club of New York City (Club Building, 27 West 44th Street--initiation fee): Volney F. Righter '26, 17 East 42nd Street, New York...
First to arrive on the scene after the story was printed were the 42nd Engineers, of the U.S. Army, with enough lumber and plywood for a floor and additional material for finishing other parts of the church. Then cash contributions from the U.S. began arriving. At present they total more than $1,200, which has been turned over to George Fitch, local director of the YMCA and an old Asia hand, for conversion into yen (Koreans may not possess American money). With this more than ample sum Ye Yun Ho now plans the following projects...
...birds - mostly midget parrots. The bird actors whistle, or appear to whistle, jazz obbligati. They wear bow ties and little hats, operate a streetcar, a taxi and a hook-&-ladder. They live, it is painful to report, in a town called Chirpendale, whose main intersection is Birdway and 42nd Street...
...Judas Sheep. There had been little enough progress in the area where U.N. would build: between 42nd and 48th Streets, from First Avenue to the river (see map). In the old slaughterhouse area livestock is still floated in by barge from New Jersey, is still led to the killing sheds by a cynical Judas sheep. On a vacant lot near the Consolidated laundry, Italian workmen still bowl through the intricacies of bocce every day the weather permits. Sidewalks are littered with old refuse, crumbling walls chalked with ancient obscenities...
...dark two-room West syth Street apartment near Carnegie Hall they cooked occasional lamb stews, sometimes had to scrape up money for food by cashing in on their empty milk and soda-pop bottles. They visited the Central Park zoo, and for evenings out, walked down to 42nd Street for a 10? Wild West movie, stopping for a hamburger...