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There used to be so many burlesque houses on Manhattan's garish 42nd Street that it was virtually one big runway. A decade ago Mayor LaGuardia, who loved to brandish a besom, swept burlesque and all its trimmings right out of New York City; 42nd Street west of Broadway was left with a flea circus and a bereft feeling. Not until The Hat and his pecksniffian License Commissioner Paul Moss left office did there seem any chance to bring the strippers and the privy jokesters back to the boards...
...most expensive strip of real estate in the world (Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, between 42nd and 57th Streets) stand four churches. One of them is the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, whose 79-year-old, brownstone steeple is dwarfed by the neighboring towers of Rockefeller Center, the spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral...
Died. Helen Manice Alexander, 74, blueblooded benefactress of needy musicians, Manhattan clean-up campaigner extraordinary; after a fall; in Baltimore. She introduced an improved chewing-gum scraper for street cleaners (by her 1938 count, there were 1,250,000 wads stuck to Broadway between 42nd and soth), once ran a sidewalk-scrubbing contest in Times Square...
...midtown towers heard a plane close by - very close. It thundered past the stark, stone structures of Rockefeller Center. On the streets below, pedestrians startled by the low-flying craft looked up, saw Old John Feather Merchant barely miss a 60-floor building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Then the craft, southbound, pulled up into the cloud...
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