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...MOST DENSELY POPULATED CITY: Union City, N.J., with 40,138 people per sq. mi. Next: Hoboken, N.J. with 37,262. New York City has only 24,697-although one of its boroughs, Manhattan, jams 77,195 into each square mile...
Under normal circumstances, only necessity would draw any Frenchman to Maubeuge (pop. 30,000), a cheerless, Hoboken-like manufacturing center up near the Belgian border, where the moon-or, for that matter, the sun-shines rarely on the River Sambre. But all summer long the roads to Maubeuge have been jammed with moonstruck vacationers, honeymooners and touring rubbernecks, all lured there by what promises to become Europe's next popular hit-a tango called Un Clair de Lune à Maubeuge (Moonlight at Maubeuge...
...swarm of travelers in MarcoPolaroid sunglasses have gone off to wander the earth seeking low overhead and finding high adventure. Both U.S. and European companies are working on location everywhere from the Middle East to the Greater Antilles. If the final results may often seem dull as Hoboken on the screen, there is plenty of color in the making of the films. Current examples...
...Lackawanna Railroad's crack Phoebe Snow pulled out of Hoboken and roared west last week, a private Pullman car was attached to the rear, with a party of eight elderly Negroes aboard. The leader and bill payer of the group was a tall, spare man, duded up in a blinding sports shirt and necktie, a sharp-lapelled suit, jaunty Ivy League cap and high-button shoes. He was no potentate from Africa, but William Tyler, 78, a retired Pullman porter, and he was relishing the fulfillment of a lifetime dream...
Three Circles of Light, by Pietro di Donate. A Saroyanesque merry-go-round, spinning to music not always merry, about Italian immigrants in West Hoboken-the scene of the author's famed first novel, Christ in Concrete...