Show r 1 New York What looks like a palace at Park ve and is merely the uppity acquet and Tennis Clubhouse There is a Park Ave penthouse that has a garden with a foot 30 water water- waterfall raIl fall Radio City's studios are built like boxes within boxes sepa- sepa I rate rooms within rooms raised from the building floors by steel springs covered with felt in order to improve acoustics Imagine go- go going going ing through all that trouble for soap operas The Music Hall Rock Rock- ettes can live comfortably without ever leaving the theater They work there can eat in its restaurants and have a luxurious dormitory atop the theater to sleep in Talk about tact At one Park ave place the headwaiter never bows to a patron if he is with a woman not his wife two Thirty years after Columbus discovered America the strip of land now known as Manhattan was dis- dis discovered discovered covered by Giovanni da There isn't even a street named after aft aft- after er him What many sightseers think is romantic and picturesque in Chinatown are merely rundown tenements The city's worst slums are located there Our fighting Mayor LaGuardia has installed a punching bag in one of the City Hall rooms rooms' rooms Only six cities in Ger- Ger Germany Germany many contain more Germans than Yorkville Many of the Ori- Ori Oriental Oriental herbs sold for high prices in exclusive food shops are grown in Staten Island If you want a whiff of old New York go to the Murray Hill Hotel Ten times as many people visit New York during a year as live in inthe inthe the metropolis As far as earth earth- earthquakes earthquakes quakes are concerned the Big City is the safest part of the world Only of the Chinese in New York live in Chinatown This gives you an idea how cosmo cosmo- cosmopolitan cosmopolitan politan our burg is It has three Arabic daily newspapers The Chinese maintain a school for their children in Mott St. St The mer- mer merriest merriest riest locale in town is the Puerto Rican section of Harlem on Satur- Satur Saturday Saturday day night There are laws regulating regu- regu regulating lating the shape of our skyscrapers The opening of the Brooklyn Bridge was celebrated as a nation nation- national al holiday For twelve years while the bridge was being built the chief engineer had lain partially para para- The first lady to drive across it was his wife who acted as his intermediary The Herman Goering award is presented monthly to a member of the American Air Force in England It is given to the Yank who contributes most to the German war effort It is a large iron cross 12 by 12 inches worn inches worn around the neck The RAF has a similar prize prize- published each week in its paper paper-a parody on an official seal Recently it was awarded to the crew of a large bomber returned from a mission It seems they couldn't make their radio work properly on the way home The gas was almost gone and finally they were forced down in what they thought was Holland Upon landing they immediately set fire to their bomber stayed with it until it lit up the black night They they ran like anything for what they thought was the near near- nearest nearest est house praying that the tenants were sympathizers It was the saloon around the cor- cor corner corner ner from their base One of the most important stories of the war how the surrender of the Italian fleet was was' lii v d y by a aradio radio engineer of the Overseas Branch of the OWl was ignored or buried by most newspapers ne Not one of them even mentioned his name He is Robert Morris Pierce of Cleveland Ohio attached to the Army's Psychological Warfare branch of which OWl is an im- im important important part Here Is how it was done When Italy surrendered a message was prepared for broadcast to the Italian fleet It was doubt doubt- doubtful doubtful ful il if the fleet would hear it be cause the Italian Navy had a strict taboo on listening to our broadcasts Pierce solved the problem by working all night to shift the big transmitter to the international dis- dis distress distress tress signal band to which ships of all nations listen The message was broadcast every 15 mi minutes utes for several hours When the Italian fleet steamed into Malta as a result of the broadcast Admiral Sir An An- Andrew drew Brown Cunningham Allied NaVal Force Commander said Tell General McClure they've ac- ac accomplished accomplished in one day with propaganda propaganda ganda what Ive I've been trying to do for three years with the Navy Groucho Marx told Artur Rubin Rubin- stein that Southern California was becoming the home of musical greats Iturbi Heifetz all of whom played at the Bowl The maestro said when the season ended he was in the foyer of the and heard two dow dow- dowagers agers discussing music How was the season at t the Howl Bowl one asked Quite good was the answer considering that we had nothing but local talent |