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Wagner met and married Margaret Marie McTague, the Catholic daughter of Irish-born parents (during their courtship he almost lost her by taking her to Feltmans Restaurant on Coney Island and ordering steaks-only to be briskly informed that it was Friday night). When their only son was christened, Tammany District Leader Mike Cosgrove stood in as godfather-and Young Bob has never since been far removed from political influences...
...night, seven nights a week, for Mutual's WOR (blanketing 13 states). But Shepherd's main weapon against the "day people" was a wacky, stream-of-consciousness monologue, e.g., discussing the vital role of the "Flexible Flyer sled in the U.S. cultural renaissance," the difficulties of explaining Coney Island to a scientist from Venus, the socio-anthropological facts behind wearing paper hats at parties...
...spring promises to be quite political in this election year, but it will undoubtedly have its social and financial aspects too. In a couple of months the river bank should once again become a Coney Island of towels, softballs, books, and conscientiously suntanned bodies. Perhaps too, some undergraduates will renew their attempt to persuade all the college to attend something called an all-college weekend. Meanwhile, up in the Yard, Harvard will admit its biggest and brilliantest freshman class yet, and will then set about lending them enough money to pay their way through. Dean Bundy will still be busy...
Providence, R.I., January 10--Crafty Coney Weliand's shift may not make him as famous as Lou Boudreau yet it is apparently yielding good results. But it almost didn't tonight at the Rhode Island Auditorium as the Crimson barely slipped past Providence College...
...Jelke trial for LIFE, For some of his best material he went to the Bowery ("You can't find any thing better to draw") and burlesque houses ("Extremely pictorial. You get a woman in the spotlight, the gilt archi tecture of the place, plenty of human ity"). Coney Island fascinated him: "Crowds of people in all directions, in all positions, without clothing, moving - like the great compositions of Michelangelo and Rubens. I failed to find anything like it in Europe...