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...rise to No. 1 man on the Lee staff, devoting most of his time to Pennsylvania Railroad and Chrysler, but he became a private relations counsel between his temperamental chief and the rest of the staff. When Mr. Lee would abruptly summon his staff to meet him in his uptown suite in the old Waldorf, demand to know why a certain letter had not been sent out as directed, then brokenly announce: "I'm through. I simply can't go on. You fellows divide up the accounts!" -it was Tommy Ross who quietly herded the office force back...
...girls are serious-minded. Hurdling fairly stiff entrance requirements, they are in college not for fun but for hard work. They play basketball and join sororities, societies or Menorah (Jewish cultural society) but Hunter's airs are not of the campus. Around the main building, an antiquated affair uptown between Park and Lexington Avenues, there is no campus to speak...
...found that Mr. Ridley had owned extensive property uptown as well as many an East Side tenement. In his bank was over $1,000,000 in cash. His will left $812,000 to relatives who had not seen him for years. A bequest of $200,000 was left Weinstein provided the latter survived him. Police medical examiners were hard put to tell which victim had predeceased the other. Since neither body was robbed, it was supposed that some obscure revenge had motivated the crime. A bootlegger's hideout, discovered deep in the same old building, darkened the mystery further...
...Uptown--"Farewell to Arms." A faithful version of Ernest Hemingway's story of love and war in the Trentino, with the galky Gary and the hellish Helen...
...taking Alice uptown to the rescue, the Repertory Theatre hopes to recoup enough to go back to repertory. "The production of Alice," said the New York Sun, "gives opportunity for thousands to become, in a way, endowers of a theatre which deserves their aid-and to have fun doing...