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Speedy Haul. The first commercial all-freight flight across the Atlantic took off from LaGuardia Field for London with $41,000 worth of merchandise. The pioneering Pan American DC-4 hauled a 3,520-lb. cargo: 1,900 lbs. (1,000 meals) of frozen food; 225 lbs. of mink and Alaska lynx furs valued at $36,000; consumer staples, such as pipes, tobacco, fruit cake, fresh pineapple, clothing, cosmetics, books, stationery, radio equipment...
...York's liveliest and most unpredictable radio shows has been Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's Talk to the People. Every Sunday afternoon since 1941, over city-owned WNYC, the Little Flower has rasped and ricocheted his way through 30 minutes of the most unorthodox chatter on the air. He left sentences dangling, blithely mispronounced words, skipped syllables when he tantrum-well felt like it. He growled at chiselers, sang sarcastically at enemies, squeaked angrily at hecklers. He read the comics, with expression, and told housewives how to prepare oxtail ragout. All this made lively listening...
...nothing better than to take a slap at New York. This week, with the help of American Overseas Airlines, Inc., it slapped hard. A Douglas Skymaster (the "Chicago") took off on the first direct Chicago-to-London flight, thus bypassing New York. Up to now New York's LaGuardia Field has been the origin of virtually all commercial transatlantic flights...
Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir A^hur William Tedder and Lady Tedder, sightseeing in Manhattan, in a single day encountered such varied American novelties as Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, hot dogs, and a college football game (Army 48, Notre Dame...
...usual, Fiorello LaGuardia had enraged thousands of New Yorkers, tickled thousands, and fascinated thousands. But he had bored very few. Perhaps that was his secret, even more than his withering frankness and his relentless fight for honest government. Whatever it was, the people knew one thing for certain: after 12 years New York City was losing the best Mayor it had ever...