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...Hangout for Broadway's anonymous, footsore young actors is the vast, bare-tabled, coffee-smelling basement of Walgreen's drugstore in Times Square. Into this "poor man's Sardi's," every noon, swarm the occupants of a thousand hall bedrooms, to eat and table-hop, jam the phone booths, swap hard-luck stories, pick up casting tips. Lately they have also been coming to buy a nickel's worth of reading matter...
...Fenner is sure of it, and she ought to know. For nearly 20 years tweedy, witty little Miss Fenner has presided over a remarkable library in the elementary schools of Manhasset, L.I. Miss Fenner has a sympathetic ear for what children really like, and her library is a favorite hangout of Manhasset moppets. In "Our Library" (John Day; $1.75), Miss Fenner explains: "Give the children the adventure they crave, but give them books written with sincerity and honesty...
...grounds of New Rochelle High School the totally wrecked jalopy was placed as a grim warning to the city's youth. And shocked parents and school officials learned that New Rochelle bars were an after-school hangout; that a survey showed 94% of high-school youngsters questioned drove or expected soon to drive cars; 28% of those who drove had no licenses; 57% had been in automobile accidents; "wrinkle fender" (i.e., automobile tag) was a popular game...
Dominating the southern end of the quadrangle is massive Widener Library, third largest in the United States. Facing it at the north end is the Memorial Church, built in remembrance of Harvard's dead in the World War. In the southwest corner stands Lehman Hall, hangout of the Superintendent of Caretakers and of the University bill-collectors...
...oldsters who fought the Independents' first battles still slay long-dead dragons with all their old zest. As a prelude to this year's Silver Jubilee, a group of oldtimers, with some 300 friends and admirers, crowded the Independents' old hangout: Petitpas, a venerable Bohemian French restaurant on Manhattan's lower West Side. Their guest of honor was a small, garrulous, bespectacled oldster who had risen from a sickbed to be there. For 24 of its 25 years he had been the Society's president. His name was a famous one in U.S. art: John...