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...dawn, Scarsdalers waiting herd-like for the 8.52; a homeless drunk sprawled on the sidewalk, semi-human sardines jammed into the subway; Mrs. $25,000-a-year-executive smugly viewing the man-made greenness of the Bronx River Parkway; Miss $15-a-week dictation sponge engulfing a hectic ham-on-rye; sunshine on the glories of Park Avenue; the same sunshine on the littered, crowded alloys of Mike Gold's 606 playground (the East Side); Fifth Avenue jammed with taxis, limousines and fur-clad ladies with good dogs; dismal parks replete with dejected souls, magnificent churches disgorging uplifted souls; bustling...
...puchero recipe of Chef Juan Nieto* of Manhattan's Spanish Restaurant El Chico: Spanish peas (garbanzos), cabbage, potatoes, one fowl, beef (1 to 2 lb.), ham (cubed, about ½lb.), spanish sausage (chorizos), lare onion, tomato, pinch of saffron, salt & pepper. Boil slowly for two hours. Serve fowl, beef, ham and sausage on separate platter, garnished with vegetables. Serve broth separately...
...field against Wisconsin this Saturday it will be the end of his meteoric, first and only season with the Gophers. By another Big Ten ruling he will not be eligible to play in 1935. He will probably join some professional team, as did his hero, Minnesota's ham-handed Bronko Nagurski...
...Waldorf and his man Oscar. Neatly they spiked their problem with a startling innovation ? a U. S. menu U. S. cooked. Mr. Boomer led off with Cape Cods baked in the shell, New Orleans gumbo and Maryland terrapin. His bird was Chesapeake mallard. Frozen applejack preceded Virginia ham and autumn salad which were topped off with soufflé Lugol and coffee...
...current struggle between the officers of justice and the organized forces of crime, the local police departments, ham-strung by the venality of city bosses and the inferior talents of their men, are unable to function with the essential efficiency and coordination. Offering a meagre salary and little hope of advancement without political influence, the police forces are compelled to recruit from the lower strata of society...