Show M 93 about new york what looks me like a palace at park A ave ve and is merely the uppity racquet hacquet and tennis clubhouse there Is a park ave pe penthouse that has a garden with a 30 foot waterfall radio cites studios are built like boxes within boxes separate rooms within rooms raised from the building floors by steel springs rigs covered with felt in order to improve acoustics imagine going through all that trouble for or soap oper operas as the music hall 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 it if he is with a woman not its his wife thirty two years after columbus discovered america the strip of land now known as manhattan was discovered by giovanni Glov annl da Verra there even a street named after him what many sightseers think Is roman romantic tic 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 the city hall rooms only six cities in germany contain more germans than yorkville many of the oriental her herbs b sold sold for high pi prices e 1 in exclusive food shops are grown in staten island it if you want tt a whiff of old new york go to the murray hill hotel ten times as many people I 1 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 tho the chinese i to new york live in chinatown this gives you an idea how c 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 nican section ot of harlem on saturday night there are laws regulating the shape of our skyscrapers the e 0 pening opening of the brooklyn bridge was celebrated as a national holiday for twelve years while the bridge was being built the chief engineer had lain partially paralyzed the first lady to drive across it was his wife ife who acted as his in intermediary t erme diary the herman goering award Is presented monthly to a member ol of tho the american air force in england it Is given to the yank who contributes most to the german germa n war effort it Is a large iron cross 12 by 12 inches worn around the neck the rafhus RAF has a similar prize L published each week in its paper a parody on an official seal recently it was awarded to the crew of 0 a large bomber ret returned umed from a mission it seems the make their radio work properly on the way home the gas ga 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 ith it until it lit up the black night then they ran like anything for what they thought was the near i est eat house praying that the tenants were sympathizers it was the saloon around the corner corder from their basel base one of the most important stories ol of the war how the surrender ol of the italian fleet was achieved by f radio engineer of the overseas branch ot of the owl was ignored ot 01 burled buried by most newspapers pers not 0 one ne ot of them e ven even mentioned hit his n name ame lie he Is 11 robert her t morris pierce ot of cleveland ohio ohio attached to the ardys psychological warfare branch ol of which owl Is an important part here Is how it was done when italy surrendered a message was prepared tor for broadcast to the italian fleet it is doubt ful it if the fleet would hear it be cause the italian navy had a taboo on listening to our broad broadcast pierce solved the problem b working all night to sh shift ift the bf bl transmitter to the international dis tress signal band to which ships 0 all ail nations listen the was broadcast every 15 minutes to several hours when the idallan fleet steamed into malta as a resu ot of the broadcast admiral sir andrew brown cunningham naval force commander said tell general mcclure be ac complis hed in one day with kropa ganda what ive been trying to do di for three years year s with the navy groucho marx told artur rubin stein that southern california was wa becoming the home ot of musical greats iturbi heinetz Hei Hel retz fetz a all 11 0 whom played at the awood bowl the maestro said when the ended he w was as in the foyer of 0 thi the i philharmonic and heard two dow agers d acu sting music H how 0 w was ans the season at thi bowl 0 one ne as asked ked quite good was the answer considering that we had b but local talent |