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...year later, irrepressible "Bernie" Baruch ended his 64th year by pulling out of Wall Street, moving his office from No. 120 Broadway four miles uptown to the corner of 57th and Madison (TIME, July 2). He was resolved that the financial district should see less of him, the public hear more. To that end he addressed himself to writing three books, largely about Bernard Baruch. Biographer Marquis James (Andrew Jackson, the Border Captain) was hired to help in their preparation...
...Uptown Sinclair, peerless knight of things as they ought to be, has by the legerdemain of New Deal psychology, obtained the Democratic nomination for Governor of California, and now, two months later the bonds of the Golden State have decreased one-tenth in market value. Every indication points to the fact that this timidity of capital will continue until election, when, if the former Socialist is elected, it will turn to precipitate flight...
...refused to recognize the existence of a lady's by on the main through fare, but which maintained a segregated district running full blast in a back alley . While the City Censor, in his wisdom, refuses to allow the slightest bit of lascivious titillation from the stages of the uptown theatres, the citizen with an incurably low-down taste may still pander to his lower instincts by slipping furtively down to the Old Howard Athenaeum (take subway to Scollay Square, walk down to Howard Street...
Other passengers who left the Europa in limousines were booed and razzberried on the chance that they might be Dr. Hanfstaengl. He left the pier on a tug provided by the North German Lloyd, dined uptown and went to a night club with Harvard friends bent on escorting him to the reunion at Cambridge of his class of 1909. "You call me 'Putzy' as you did at Harvard," he beamed, "but in Berlin they call me 'Hanfy Hanfstaengl...
Kykunkor (Witch Woman) closed for a few days but last week it reopened uptown in the smart little Chanin Auditorium. Best seats at the Unity Theatre had cost 35?. At the Chanin they were $2.75 and the list of enthusiasts had grown to include Leopold Stokowski, Lawrence Tibbett, George Gershwin, Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Van Doren. "One of the most exciting shows in town," critics were saying. But the songs and dances make it so. Kykunkor's plot is slender. It tells of an African villager who chooses a bride, succumbs to the evil magic of another less...