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...leading citizens did not foresee in 1884 was the automobile. Before the motorcar, nine interurban railroad lines fed into the city. Today there is only one. The broad Central Parkway was built atop the subway (at a cost of $3,330,990), and Cincinnatians in cars and busses now zip into the Basin in the morning, zip out at night about as fast as any other form of transport could carry them...
...aged 33 to 85, staged a revue in blackface, Grandma's Scandals of 1939. Members of the Chicago chapter of the National Grandmothers' Club, the old girls scampered through 16 specialties, from cakewalks to French songs. Said the club's Chicago president: "It's got zip-so much zip that several grandchildren have had the nerve to protest...
...park at all, Aquatic Park is essentially a glorified bathing place on a more modest scale than Long Island's colossal Jones Beach. Its main pavilion is designed on the lines of a neat white ocean liner-an idea carried out with more zip if less simplicity than in a yacht club at San Sebastian, Spain, where it was tried by Architects Labayen & Aizpurua in 1929. Architect William Mooser Jr. can thank his architect father for Aquatic Park's excessively ugly background: a chocolate factory designed...
This afternoon at two, the Vagabond and his home town girl will tramp arm in arm to Allston Amphitheatre 36 to sit in while Professor Harlow's star pupils zip through an hour's examination of that Big Ten eleven...
...Russian-born Inventor Ivan Eremeef, Philadelphia protégé of Orchestra-man Leopold Stokowski, was last week tinkering with a model for just such a craft. Inventor Eremeef's wingless, finned, torpedo-like conception, carrying two small cannon and four hours' fuel supply, would zip 1,000 miles or more to bombard an enemy, could then retreat at a speed faster than some enemy bullets could chase...