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...will certainly have reason to bless you when tourists roam our neighborhood all night looking for trouble ! As a matter of fact, the neighborhood you have libeled is like any other downtown dis trict in a large city- it has plenty of bar rooms, gambling houses and houses of assigna tion. But it also includes a dozen quite respectable hotels, the Glide Memorial Church (Southern Methodist), the B'nai Brith Hall, the very newest and swankiest dance-spot in the city (featuring people like Gene Krupa and Buddy Rogers), the headquarters of a large proportion of the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 13, 1939 | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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