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Last week, while planes dropped flares in Manhattan's North River, parachutists attacked Long Island's Floyd Bennett Field, and mock invaders stormed and took Fort Tilden (near Coney Island), the Information Center moved with precision and dispatch. Its instructions guided the operations of 250 pursuit ships, batteries of 800,000,000-candle-power searchlights, five anti-aircraft regiments. Although at first as much as six minutes elapsed between a flash and the allocation of a disc, the Center soon got its timing close to the 40 seconds which the Army thinks adequate. The Army had high praise...
...them, not even Dr. Flexner, his favorite. For years no one dared call him Popsy to his face. Yet he did not act like a lonely, reserved bachelor -he was always dapper, always nimble on his little feet, always ready for fun. He loved carnival life: Coney Island, Hollywood, roller coasters, ice cream. He gorged himself on everything from terrapin to ham & eggs, ate from three to six desserts, became "irritated" if his friends stopped at one. An opera, painting, baseball fan, he astonished musicians and sports experts with his lore...
...fish left for aquariums in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington. The sea lions now rest uneasily in the lions' house at The Bronx Zoo, where some 4,000 smaller fish and reptiles will join them. They will live in the Zoo until a new Aquarium is built at Coney Island. Another 1,000 fish will be poured into the city's reservoirs...
...waltzing mouse," or paying off an insistent suitor ("Listen, tall, dark and bad-mannered!"), Maisie The Taxi Dancer is delightful to look at. One part Jean Harlow, one part Mae West, she is an honest and fetching carbon copy of a type of U.S. female to be found at Coney Island on any hot summer Sunday...
...first the passengers sat sidewise on seats running the length of the cars, but seats were eventually set cross wise to permit the riders to pair off and to see, dizzily, where they were going. Eulogium over the entrance to one of Coney's ultramodern roller coasters: "This ride is a Memorial to Lamarcus A. Thompson, Inventor of Gravity...