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Slim, blonde Conchita Cintron, 25, girl bullfighter, paused at LaGuardia Airport on her way from Lisbon to ring engagements in Peru. Born of U.S. parents in Chile, 121-lb. Conchita, who claims 828 bulls in her eight-year career, told reporters that she would not get married just yet because she "still enjoys' fighting too much...
Died. Gordon S. Rentschler, 62, chairman of the board of directors of the National City Bank of New York; of a heart ailment; in Havana. He was once described by the late Fiorello LaGuardia as "the one banker I know who has none of the traits of the pawnbroker...
...fewer than five clubs had gone in for a touch of Minsky. In place of swing bands they had installed knockabout comedians in baggy pants, and strip-teasers in net brassieres. The town hadn't seen so many strippers since 1942, when Fiorello LaGuardia sent them packing...
...members (four men, two women) of the advance party would need all the hardening they had. Keeping their arrival plans secret, they took off this week from New York City's LaGuardia Field. First stop: London. Destination: the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, where, under British protection, they would try to prepare the way for the U.N. Palestine Commission...
...York Supreme Court from trading in securities in New York. Four years later he turned up as "a war contract broker" in Washington's famed "House on R Street" inquiry (TIME, May 15, 1943). In 1944 New York City's late Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia accused him of being the front man for Racketeer Irving (Waxey Gordon) Wexler in deals in war surplus goods...