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...truck, bus, passenger and express traffic, two levels for parking. It would run between 9th and 10th Avenues and between 2nd and 3rd. Crosstown streets, much wider than present ones, would be laid out in pairs (e.g., an eastbound highway on the site of 40th Street, westbound on 42nd Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New New York? | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...were manning an AA gun on a dreary building somewhere along Broadway or Fifth Avenue. Or suppose you were one of the lucky privates who beat the Meteorology racket. A guy I know did, and now he's buried away atop an office building on Third Avenue and 42nd Street in N. Y. What kind of conviviality is that...

Author: By Field Artillery, | Title: GI COLLEGE MAN GAZES UPON GOLDBRICKING AT FORT BRAGG | 12/10/1943 | See Source »

MILTON AVEUGLE DICTA NT 'LE PARADIS PERDU' A SES FILLES. Jim finally located Niobe in the 42nd Street Library copying Munkacsy's painting of Milton in his blindness dictating to his daughters. She got away. Next time Niobe turned up was at memorial cervices for Bloodgood H. Cutter, "the Long Island Farmer Poet." As Mrs. Bertha K. Hollings of Butte, Mont., she said a few words in honor of Cutter's memory, ran away when Jim chased her. Soon afterward she emerged as "Miss Sanderson," evangelist for the Society for the Preservation of Happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uninhibited Ha-Ha | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...sometimes for 300 guests. In 1941 a society page reported: "This year even the Oakes purse feels a proportionate pinch, and there is the shadow of war to dim too much display. However, the comings and goings at Westbourne, their Caves Point villa, keep it about as quiet as 42nd St. at high noon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Great Oakes | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...course to 17 weeks as the need for new officers slackens (TIME, April 26). This week T.I.S. will have its first formal inspection by Lieut. General Lesley McNair, head of the Army Ground Forces. Among the sights: 239 first classmen from West Point, 90 officers of the newly activated 42nd ("Rainbow") Division taking refresher courses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - T.I.S. | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

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