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...putt-golf, listen to opera, row their babies on South Oyster Bay or diaper them in a room specially set aside, and "build their bodies" under free instruction facilities); Jacob Riis Park (which has the world's largest one-unit parking space -14,000 cars); Orchard Beach on Pelham Bay (where 100,000 bathers can cavort on 6,600,000 cu. yd. of ocean sand of which 2,500,000 was hauled from Rockaway); Bethpage Park (where the near-rich can play polo and all can play golf on four 18-hole courses for $1 and $2 greens fees...
...Fort Plain, New York; B. F. Bart, Jr. '38, West Redding, Connecticut; R. S. Bart '40, Redding, Connecticut; P. Baur '38, Leonia; New Jersey; D. Beck '38, Union City, New Jersey; P. I. Blumberg '39, New York; M. P. Brown '40, Rochester, New York; L. A. Campbell '39, Pelham Manor, New York; F. L. Chamberlin, Jr. '39, Stamford, Connecticut; J. L. Chase '39, Tully, New York; H. F. Cline '39, Elizabeth, New Jersey...
...practice. After ten days he changed his mind, hustled back to Manhattan to teach full time at Columbia. A year later he idealistically resigned because President Nicholas Murray Butler appointed a new dean of the Law School without first consulting the faculty. Shortly afterwards at a party in Pelham he met famed Dean Robert Maynard Hutchins of Yale Law School. Next day Hutchins telephoned from New Haven, hired Bill Douglas to teach law at Yale. There he was director of bankruptcy studies, collaborated with the Department of Commerce in the same field, did so well that he achieved the topnotch...
...during 38 years at the zoo, Dr. Ditmars recalls the time a lion named Simba missed his birthday party because day before he had painted himself pea green by rolling around in his freshly painted cell. Once there was a seal (not from the zoo) loose on nearby Pelham Parkway, and they went out and captured him to add to the collection. And once a shipment of gopher snakes arrived at the zoo frozen like walking sticks, and had to be thawed out before they went on exhibition...
...march of bonus-seeking veterans on Washington ended in an ill-tempered whiff of tear gas that embarrassed the Army's orderly Brigadier General Pelham D. Glassford, retired. Last week another indigent siege of the Capital, by 2,500 jobless WPA workers who belong to David Lasser's Workers' Alliance, produced no whiff more deadly than that of Brigadier General Hugh Johnson, retired, who editorialized in his Scripps-Howard column: "It seems to be intimidation of the Legislature by a tiny minority using the silent threat of incipient riot. Their leaders . . . just want...