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¶ "The great city is the center of the Flight ... It is built like a fortress against the heavens . . . The houses stick to the ground by means of asphalt lest they should sink into the earth when the heavens thrust against them. From roof to roof the wires stretch like...
Shortly starred in Ned Buntline's Wild West show, Bill Cody became a promoter's dream. Unlike his roughhewn pal, "Wild Bill" Hickock, Cody never "spat the liquid on the stage" in whisky-drinking acts, never barked, "Any damn fool would know that was cold tea." He usually...
Her first concerts showed a mature wit, a flair for character dancing, and a feel for American material (forty-niners, chorines, Civil War vaudevillians). The critics clapped, but the going was hard. For the next half-dozen years, Agnes lived on a small allowance from her father, eked out with...
Sumner recalls one instance where sex helped out attendance considerably. "About 15 years ago we had a rather ordinary picture called "The Animal Kingdom" with Leslie Howard as the star. The first day it did just ordinary business, but after that word got out about just one joke in the...
Rainmaking in New York is again the province of Mother Nature and any witch doctors who may care to turn their hands to it. Wallace E. Howell '36, research meteorologist at the University's Blue Hills Observatory, no longer seeds the heavens for the city's reservoirs.