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...Hollywood, or painless, treatment of the same subject as Leftist Michael Gold's Jews Without Money. An elderly Rumanian named Mr. Marco is the acknowledged patriarch of the pushcart market and adjacent tenements under Manhattan's Williamsburg Bridge. Shrewd as Solomon and benign as an Easter bunny, Mr. Marco spends his days getting evicted tenants restored to their rooms, destitute European refugees set up in the pushcart business. But eventually a real-estate company razes the tenements and disperses the pushcarts. At a last neighborhood party, brightened by his market-place alumni who have grown rich, Mr. Marco...
Died. Dr. Mahlon William Locke, 61, Ontario's famed assembly-line purveyor of arthritis treatments (by foot yanking); of a heart attack; near his home, Williamsburg, Ont. He did most of his work seated in a swivel chair in his yard, whirling around to queues of patients converging on him like the spokes of a wheel. He charged $1 a visit (usually less than a minute), and at the height of his popularity attracted as many as 1,000 patients...
...mountains stretched sleepily before them. Black boys in white coats slid constantly among them with trays of tall glasses wrapped in white paper napkins. . . . Not a cloud in the sky. All were dreaming and talking of next year's harvest of tourists to Vermont, Yosemite, Miami, Williamsburg. Suddenly the sound of airplanes came from high above us. Hardly a soul looked up. I searched but could see nothing till two small clouds of glistening white like snowflakes showed where a tremendous flock of swans or geese had been split into confusion by three Airacobras. The birds formed again, melted...
Meeting outside of Massachusetts for he first time in over 300 years, the Board of Overseers of the University received the cordial salutations and hospitality of the Board of Governors of William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Virginia last Saturday...
...evening the Overseers and the ladies of the party will be given a dinner at the Raleigh Tavern by Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. On Sunday they will attend morning services at Bruton Parish Church, after which they will entertain their hosts at luncheon at the Williamsburg...