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...couple of other characters of varied talent who get into the act, of whom one quite frequently may be a girl named Kathryn Grayson, who sings. "It Happened in Brooklyn" has something to do with a shy ex-soldier with a great and unrequited love for the well-known borough, accompanied by an assortment of others (girl music teacher, boy piano-player, bashful songwriter), all with fervid musical ambitions. At frequent intervals they burst out into song, both separately and en masse...
Demobilized in January, 1946, he returned to his studies at Cambridge. Active in politics, he is a member of the Cambridge Borough Council and is vice-President of the Cambridge University Conservative Association. Richmond is also President of the Union Society at Cambridge...
...Luftwaffe, was ignominiously dead last week, his ashes scattered to the four winds. But the man for whom Goring did the job-Francisco Franco-was very much alive. Moreover, Guernica had been completely rebuilt. In gratitude, the citizens of Guernica last week honored Franco with the "freedom of the borough...
George Bernard Shaw, who, at 41, climbed off his soapbox to become socialist member of London's St. Pancras borough council, was prevented (by a fall) from receiving the council's belated recognition: freedom of the borough. He had tumbled from his swivel chair and bruised a leg. But he delivered an acceptance speech anyway (by radio transcription). Said Shaw: "When one is very old, as I am . . . your legs give in before your head does. Consequently you're always tumbling about. I tumble down about three times a week . . . and . . . it was perfectly plain that...
There were plenty of other crusades-for woman suffrage, against child labor and the yellow peril, etc. (The Journal gracefully took no credit for the Spanish-American War.) If a Hearst reporter had not dropped a chance remark to a Manhattan Borough president in 1915, the Triborough Bridge might never have been built. The politician told the reporter the idea of the bridge was "a wonderful thing. . . . Write me a memo on it." And 21 years later, the bridge was there...