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Show 1 Things About New Yorkt Just about the time city hall was being built a young man was in dieted for the murder of his sweetheart sweet-heart . . . Political influence resulted re-sulted In Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr (the town's top criminal crim-inal lawyers) uniting In the ac-1 ac-1 cused's defense. - . . The judge was named Lansing. ... He suggested acquittal. . . . The aunt of the murdered mur-dered girl Interrupted the jury foreman fore-man as he announced: "Not guilty!" by shrieking: "There is no justice in heaven if those who have freed the slayer of my niece go unpunished!" unpun-ished!" . . . The weird finale to the case was written by history. Hamilton, in his prime, was killed In the duel with Burr. . . . Burr died in disgrace, hated and despised, and Lansing, the judge, disappeared as mysteriously as the long missing Judge Crater. In a magazine article Gen. Wild Bill Donovan, head of the O.S.S. in World War II, says in part: "Only now in America are we awakening to the existence of the hard fact that the Stalin challenge to our ; world is indistinguishable from the : Hitler challenge. "Many Americans (name two, General) who knew the situation and j were familiar with Russian subver-1 subver-1 sive activities besought our statesmen states-men to inform the American people. "Russia's malicious lies and dis-j dis-j tortions have gone unanswered and unchallenged." News Item: Dcmmy Chairman j J. Howard McGrath (in a statement state-ment observing the third ann'y of ! FDR's death) said President Trn-, Trn-, man had carried oat the Roose-i Roose-i velt program. Who were the other five pall-' pall-' bearers????? Bigtown Morals: The blind man at 42nd and Vth. He drums up ! trade for the sightseeing bus. . . . Third avenue Tessy, whose hobby is riding the 3rd avenue bus scar-' scar-' ing the passengers with a bowl ; loaded with turtles. . . . Sign on ' the harness of a horse on 2nd ave- nue: "Move Over Auto. I Was Here ! Long Before You Were." . . . The autograph hounds outside the mid-I mid-I town drug store (about eight thutty- ln-the-morning) just to see their 1 baseball heroes look grouchy. . . . The only place that sells a choco-! choco-! lata soda for a nickel: A vending machine on 6th at 46th. Mary Dewson ("Molly" to her pals) was one of FDR's earliest and most devoted associates . James Farley sent her a copy of his book about FDR . . . She returned re-turned it with this note: "The Lord forgives but I don't" Star In Tour Eyes: Sarah Bernhardt Bern-hardt sent reviewers into the streets dancing. But she didn't cherish her many ecstatic reviews as much as a note she received from Victor Hugo. . . . After her performance in one of his plays he sent Bernhardt Bern-hardt a huge diamond with the fol-i fol-i lowing: "You have been great and j charming. You have roused me 1 me, the old combatant and, at one I moment, while the public whom you i enchanted cheered you, I wept. This tear which you caused me to shed is yours, and I place myself at your feet." Barrymore's mightiest greasepaint grease-paint triumph was Hamlet. A producer pro-ducer informed him: "You played Hamlet perfectly." "I have played many, many roles," Barrymore countered. "But I AM Hamletl" In his book, "Late City Edition," I City Editor J. Herzberg lauds district dis-trict men "as the artery of the newspaper business." j Now he's fired seven of them saying say-ing "they are obsolete." In Washington the high court ruled (6-3) reversing decisions prohibiting the sale of magazines bearing risgay titles such as "Bargains "Bar-gains in Bodies," "Girl Slave to a Love Cult," etc. . . . Previously, no less than 17 judges of the N. Y. court of appeals, court of special sessions, appellate division and N. Y. state supreme court voted to prohibit them . . . The ayes of six men in one court outruled 17 to 4 courts that voted nay ... The majority ma-jority rules ? ? ? I Churchill had the Life staff in a tizzy just as they were going to I press. He cabled five pages of cor- I rections. They made them because his contract calls for them, and he i covered himself by marking the proofs: "Okay, but subject to further fur-ther correction." When they were "caught," Life's Mr. Longwell almost had apoplexy when another cable came reading: "Due to last minute political complications, com-plications, hold up all articles!" It was a gag by an office clown, but Mr. Longwell was in no mood for quips. Plenty cain was raised because of it, j Item: "Deepest hole In the TJ. S. Is the Grand Canyon." Next deepest is the state department depart-ment pigcon-ho!e in which t.c pro-Nazi pro-Nazi record of t!ie Giand MufW is buried. |