Show U IF ire bout about acid york what looks like a palace at park ave v and is is merely the uppity racquet and tennis clubhouse th there ere is a park ave penthouse that ha has a garden with a 30 foot waterfall rs radio ci cites tys studios are wilt built like boxes within boxes separate rooms within rooms raised from the building floors by steel springs covered with felt in order to improve acoustics imagine going through all that trouble for soap operas the music hall rock ettes can live com comfortably fort ably without ever leaving the theater they work there can eat in its restaurants and have cave a luxurious dormitory atop the theater to sleep in talk about tact at one park ave place the headwaiter nev never er bows to a patron if he is with a woman not his wife thirty two years after columbus discovered america the strip of land now known as manhattan was discovered by giovanni da Verra there even a street named after him what many sightseers think is romantic and picturesque in chinatown are merely rundown tenements the cites worst slums are located there our fighting mayor laguardia has installed a punching bag in one of 0 the city hall rooms only six cities in germany contain more germans than yorkville many of the oriental herbs sold for high prices in 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 the metropolis As far as earthquakes 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 cosmopolitan our burg is it has three arabic daily newspapers the chinese maintain a school for their children in mott st the merriest locale in town is the puerto rican section of harlem on saturday night there are laws regulating the shape of our skyscrapers the opening of the brooklyn bridge e was celebrated as a national holiday for twel twelve e aars while the bridge was behnle b engineer had lain partially paralyzed 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 around the neck the RAF has a similar prize published each week in its paper a parody on an official seal recently it was vas awarded to the crew of a large bomber returned from a mission it seems they 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 imme immediately diat ay set fire to their bomber stayed with it until it lit fit up the black night they they ran like anything bior or w what hat they thought was the nearest ne r house praying that the tenants were sympathizers it was the saloon around the corner from their basel one of the most important stories of the war how the surrender of the italian fleet was achieved by a radio engineer of the overseas branch of the was ignored or buried by most newspapers not one of them even mentioned his name he is robert morris pierce of cleveland ceveland ohio attached to the ardys psychological warfare branch of which is an important part here is how it was done when italy surrendered a message was prepared for broadcast to the italian fleet it was doubtful if the fleet would heir hear it because 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 distress signal band to which ships of all nations listen the message was as broadcast every 15 minutes for several hours when the italian fleet steamed into malta as a res result alt of the broadcast admiral sir andrew brown cunningham allied naval force commander said tell general mcclure accomplished complis hed in one day with propaganda what ive been trying to do tor for three years with the navy groucho marx told artur that southern california was becoming the home of musical greats Men tillin iturbi heifetz all oi of whom played at the te bilwood bowl the maestro said when the season ended he was in the foyer of the philharmonic and heard two dowagers discussing music how was the season at the bowl one asked quite good was the answer answer considering that we had nothing no thiro but local talent |