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...stretches across proletarian jungles under roaring elevated lines and brings up at the piers of the murky East River. There lived and reigned such Tammany greats as Richard Croker and Boss Charles Murphy and in the Gashouse stands Tammany Hall itself. There today live some of Manhattan's poorest and some of its richest, for just uptown from the East River gas tanks that gave the district its name, the rich have built a riverside colony of towering apartment houses. Through this home of doormen, poodles, gamins and Irish politics last week reverberated the angry sounds of a highly...
...type of magazine is news comment; of the least efficient, pulps. Leading five magazines read by the 100 ablest readers in Professor Buswell's study were, in order of preference: Reader's Digest, TIME, Saturday Evening Post, American Magazine, Good Housekeeping. Most frequently read by the 100 poorest readers: True Story Magazine, Detective Story Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Liberty, Saturday Evening Post...
Alexander Northrop disappointed expectations in the half mile. He gained sixth place and his time of 2:08 is the poorest he has done for a long time. Rob Haydock suffered even worse luck in the high jump. Though the Harvard record holder of over 6 ft. 3 in., Haydock barely cleared 6 ft. Saturday...
...ordinary Wikker standards, the other brother, Handel, was a freak. A onetime whaling captain turned vicar, Handel was expelled from the church when he got a farm girl in trouble. When she died in childbirth he settled down in the poorest section of his native village, became a sort of father confessor to the poor as well as a friendly enemy to the shipowner who ran the town. Until he was 60 Handel spent his days in a quiet round of preaching primitive Christianity, writing amateur science, philosophizing with his cronies, combatting the blackening meanness of his brother and sisters...
...second among the voting of the Eastern colleges, with a 75.2 count, while Yale turned up third, with 67.1. Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium was the recipient of the tail-end prize, closely rivaled by the Yankee Stadium in New York. Navy and Dartmouth facilities were also judged among the poorest of the colleges...