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...more handsome Hunter is rising in The Bronx, but in the meantime classes are crowded, jammed in one after another, some in a 32nd Street loft, some in a 52nd Street public school. Many a Hunter girl walks blocks to college, often carrying lunch which she eats in the basement. Half the girls have outside, part-time jobs. A "tradition" of planting ivy from historic places was begun last year in The Bronx. Someone tried to popularize wearing academic gowns but this died out. Hunter thinks its spring "sing" as exciting as Vassar's Daisy Chain or Smith...
...Music in the Air"--Alvin, W. 52nd Street--Werronrath sings tuneful music, Walter Slezak is altogether ingenuous, and the whole a nicely sentimental romance in Bavaria...
...marble dais in the glass-&-silver banquet hall of Cincinnati's Hotel Netherland-Plaza last week. 322 delegates of the American Federation of Labor were gravely deliberating the course of their 2,532,261 membership, the course of the U. S. Workingman. On the third day of their 52nd annual convention, the delegates were briefly but thoroughly shocked. Rumblings of disorder came from an out side corridor. Backed by 25 struggling colleagues, an excited man named Louis Weinstock, member of the New York City Painters' Union, shoved his way to the banquet hall door. Thrusting away police...
Oldest school football rivalry in the U. S. is Andover v. Exeter. It has been going on so long that no one knows just when it started. Exeter thought that last week's game was the 52nd; Andover claimed it was the 53rd. Exeter, heavily favored on its record which included a 73 to 0 drubbing for the Tufts Freshmen, won more easily than the score showed, 6 to 0 on a touchdown by its able kicking fullback, Thomas Bilodeau...
...Tempest is a tale not of Manhattan's 400 (so designated circa 1889) but of its 200,000 small-town citizens, its volunteer fire brigade, its lawless Five Points where "leather-hats" (police) never dared venture, its daring real-estate ventures into the open farming country of East 52nd Street. Author Komroff lugs in few historical buried treasures to deck his dime museum. One of them: that the original Tombs prison was so called "because its plan & architecture were inspired by a picture in a popular book of the time called Stevens' Travels. The author of the book...