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...first, a great many spectators had been yelling in fun, apparently in the belief that they were watching a publicity stunt for the Boston showing of "Fourteen Hours," a motion picture based on a death leap from Manhattan's Gotham Hotel. But as time passed, an excited, nervous tension seemed to build up among the craning throng. "Jump!" they yelled. The voices in the street kept on for one hour and 35 minutes. For one hour and 35 minutes people peering from a window of the room nearest the boy fought against the crowd in a kind of insane...
...turned out 35 full pages of indignant prose on Gotham and, in its criticism of U.S. officials, reserved its bitterest and most lengthy blasts for New York's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer, now U.S. Ambassador to Mexico...
Fourteen Hours (20th Century-Fox). A suicidal young man named John Warde stood the U.S. on its ear 13 years ago when he perched all day on the 17th-floor ledge of Manhattan's Gotham Hotel before going over the edge. Inspired by Joel Sayre's New Yorker account, "The Man on the Ledge," skillful moviemakers have turned one of 1938's most exciting news events into a tense, semi-documentary drama that bids firmly for 1951 film honors...
...present full condition of New York's reservoirs, but that they would be nearly as full without his experiments. He added that he thinks there is "not much chance" that his contract will be renewed until a new water crisis arises in New York City. Authorities in Gotham however are already worried over the early thaw...
...their convenience, and to tempt others, the CRIMSON lists below some of the attractions which help make New York the hedonists' paradise it is. As James James Thurber notes: "Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead." This moral applies to Gotham better than to any other place is the world...