The Bridge and I Own It All Yet
A first person account recalls a 17 year old on Riverside Drive who overindulged and walked the George Washington Bridge with a friend. Seventeen years later the narrator owns both the George Washington Bridge and the Empire State Building for tax purposes and still cherishes the sight from various vantage points.
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New York
Riverside Drive
Isabella
Boston
Helen
George Sokolsky
George Washington Bridge
Vaughn Monroe
Hudson River
D. Khayyam
Hudson
Chicago
West Side
Times
Empire State Building
Lord
New Jersey
Jersey
Groucho Marx Crashes Grocery for Laughs in Comic Stumble
ENRY MORGAN enters a side street grocer and encounters Groucho Marx trying to crack a bored clerk. After a spree of quick quips fail, Marx leaves defeated, drawing laughter from the clerk who reveals the comic star. A Paris socialite mistakes a novelist’s villain and challenges him to a duel, wounding him at dinner. A correspondent notes the novelist is momentarily stuck for a phrase.
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Enry Morgan
Groucho Marx
Groucho
Morgan
Paris
War Soldier Maintenance Costs Fall Dramatically
The cost of maintaining an American soldier during the war dropped from 13000 to about 5000 dollars per year. Los Angeles reports a drop in traffic fatalities from the highest rate to among the lowest in the nation. The text notes there are more than 4000 kinds of fish.
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Los Angeles
Illiteracy, crime and health facts from mid-century America
A collage of statistics shows health and social trends: high blood pressure much more common in the overweight. one third of American husbands have clothes chosen by wives. 24 Americans indicted for treason in World War II. over 152,500 behind bars in 1948. 2.7 percent illiterate. Americans spend about 15 million dollars yearly on sunglasses.
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Hamilton Paint & Wallpaper Store
Mel Heimer
Lyons Oliver Company
Oliver
Leo Edwards
Lyons, Ind
Thomas
St. N. E
Roy A. Borders
Dodge
Plymouth
Linton
Indiana
Rhodenbeck Bros
Main Street
Francis Haseman
Linton, Indiana
Memphis
Toronto
Corrells
Hoosier L. P. Gas
Harley-Davidson Motorcycles
Bili’s Cycle Shop
A Street
N. W
Lester Packing CO
Bennett Cerf
Thomas Jerrell
N. E. G St
Engle & Pirtle
General Electric
Baxley Appliance Co
Vincennes
Schwinn
Paul Gambill
North Main Street
Linten, Indiana
Briggs & Stratton
Briggs & Stratton, Johnson, Clinton and Maytag
Hastings Maytag
Dr. of Motors
Cliff Strong Motors
Studebaker Dealer
Childrens
Just
Ettes
John’s
West Linton
Linton Decorating CO
North Main
WARD
Vincennes Street
Linton, Ind
Bert Farthing, O. D
Professional Optical Service
N. Main St
Dugger
Ind
Piangs
Janssen, Gulbransen
Lester Betsy Ross
R. W. Cadwell Music House
North Court St. Sullivan, Ind
Greene County Loan Company
Dvertisers
Peter
Bell Telephone Company
Safety Legion
TOGS
Hixson & Sam
LSON
Jewelers
WiLk
Main
Eureka Chevrolet Company
Kenney’s Market
Glen Fish, Jeweler
St. Main
Sponslers Pastry Shop
Cushing
Farmers Tankage Company
Newberry
Huffer Beauty Shoppe
Hamilton Drug Store
606
Johnston Motor Sales
South Main St
Terre Haute
Jane Wlame Wolf
Wabash Ave
Terre Haute, Indiana
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