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...money, a socialist German-language newspaper and start the Spanish-American War has New York faced such a challenge from the West. Things fall apart. Now what rough beast with the legs of a kangaroo, the body of a killer bee, and the shrewdness of a platypus slouches towards Gotham to be born...
This is a communiqué from the Gotham front: propaganda ease the long taxpaying days ahead - and a warning to the boonies that New Yorkers have not lost their greatest asset - gallows humor. The trio of Renny Temple, Patti Perkins and Len Gochman are so charming however that their hardest blow is gentlest satire. There is a visit to Cold Cash, New York's First Passionate Bank, and a chat with an ancient on a park bench who used to bet with his late wife - "Whoever goes first loses." Norman Mailer crosses the Hud son as the city-nation...
Secretary of the Treasury William Simon's tasteless joke about selling New York City to the Shah of Iran can be charged to his Wall Street background. But Gotham is no item on the commodity market. You cannot barter the vision of Washington at the Treasury Building or at Fraunces Tavern. There can be no dollar value on the pride one feels passing the site on Grove Street, where Tom Paine spent his last days, or at the site of Stats Huys, where Peter Stuyvesant read the mandate making New Amsterdam a haven for all people for all time...
...high literary quality when a few quoted phrases and a sentence of summary would have conveyed the nature of most of them. Bernstein prints them, almost without excision. Bernstein, moreover, is the kind of writer who tries for breeziness by referring, for instance, to New York City as "Gotham," to England as "Albion" and to Hollywood as "the fabled Tinseltown." He sees nothing wrong, either, with writing "his scrupulously guarded virginity, hidden for so long on that same lofty pedestal where American Womanhood dwelled, was surrendered to a semiprofessional demimondaine, a Folies-Bergère dancer named Ninette...
Last week in the Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct, Protagonist continued to slide further out of the picture. The chestnut colt took a disliking to the sloppy going that day, loped around in last place most of the way and almost fell after stumbling just past the finish line. Trainer Johnny Campo's horse now has a swollen knee to contend with because of the mishap...