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...rent in its crowded, stinky black-holes is $50 a month; in the city at large, $35. "The first race riot in New York was in 1712. The most recent was in 1935. The last is not yet." But Negroes like their Harlem. ("I'd rather be a lamppost on Lenox Avenue [Harlem's Main Street] than Governor of Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The City | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Leaving a party at Manhattan's swank Central Park Casino at 3 a. m. Louis J. Ehret, 22, grandson of the late Brewer George Ehret, drove his automobile into a Central Park lamppost. His companion, beauteous Eileen Wenzel ("Miss St. Louis" of 1925, lately a Ziegfeld showgirl) was severely cut on the face by glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 27, 1932 | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...danced through eight rounds swinging ponderously, getting in a telling left once in a while but no good rights. The crowd was bored. In the last two rounds Carnera tired and Maloney took courageous chances, dropping his defense and swinging hard. It was like a bulldog barking up a lamppost. The referee hoisted Carnera's glove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Carnera v. Maloney | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

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