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Pity the Polish Pronunciations and Urban Oddities
New York Day By Day column notes comic mispronunciations by radio commentators of Polish place names in New York. It visits the Columbia Broadcasting building, the Supreme Court in Washington with grand cuspidors, a proposed modern aquarium at the Battery, and fleeting scenes around Times Square. The piece blends light social observations with character sketches of Henry J Allen and Henry Allen White, and ends with a Burlington police suspension for lunch at work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Columbia Broadcasting
Supreme Court
Washington
Battery
Old Castle Gardens
North Pole
Union Square
State Department
J P Fordyce
New York Life Insurance
Paul
57Th Street
Times Square
Forloears
Henry
Kansas
Sam Gompeeis
Carnegie Hall
William Allen White
White
Henry and
Ale
Bill White