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Last February Francis E. Vincelli tried to join the regular Army and was rejected: his eyesight was not good enough. With a bad case of the haughties, he hit the redeye, was soon good & drunk. Near his home in New York City's Borough of Queens he passed an optician's show window. That was too much for angry Vincelli; he smashed the window. Last week, having paid for the window, he was up in court on a charge of third-degree burglary. His defense: the Army had accepted him after all. Said the Court: "It seems evident...
President Conant was given the keys to the London borough of Southwark, according to a British Broadcasting Company news release on April 3. This honor means that Harvard's President has the freedom of the borough and is exempt from arrest on any charge...
...significant report was made by the mayor of Poplar. This Blitzed London borough had 23,000 buildings at break of war. Thus far 14,000 of them have been damaged, but 10,000 battered houses have again been made habitable. Two thousand have been officially condemned as unlivable and another two thousand already have been cleared away by the demolition squads...
Thick-lipped, pat-standing Republican George Upton Harvey, Borough President of Queens (only big Republican borough in New York City), who last month swore he would move to Canada if Roosevelt won, looked over local election returns showing a Republican plurality, decided: "The people of Queens want me to stay. ... I can take it. They need me here now more than ever...
...Democratic bolters to Willkie last week included: Samuel Levy, twice president of Manhattan Borough ; George L. Berry, former U. S. Senator and president of the International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union; Orville H. Bullitt, brother of Ambassador William...