Local News in the Herald Tribune
LaGuardia Urges Women to Shun Pastry
The Herald Tribune made a big deal out of former mayor Fiorello La Guardia’s somewhat facetious remarks about women’s pastry eating habits during his address to a student veterans group at Columbia. See link for more.
Negro Labor Committee Marks Tenth Anniversary
The interracial group founded by AFL unions and Socialists heralded the gains in African American employment since its founding. See link for more.
The Board of Estimates Meeting
In its coverage of the stormy Board of Estimates meeting, reported in more detail in The Sunday Times pages, the Herald Tribune noted that on the preceding two days the Board had heard from taxpayers' groups and representatives of the school system and public libraries. The last speaker, James S. McCormack, who spoke in the early morning hours to a nearly empty room, was the victim of alphabetical order since he spoke in his capacity as an inspector for the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity. The newspaper stated that the CIO union reps were the most adamant in their demands, citing their support for the current administration in the recent municipal election and threatening to withdraw their support in the future if their demands were not met. Essentially they were looking for increases commensurate to wage increases being granted in private industry and in line with the rise in the cost of living.
A Streetcar Accident
The newspaper reported that two men were hit by a passenger car while waiting in a traffic safety island at 44th Street and Tenth Avenue. By 1946 buses had replaced most of Manhattan's street cars but a few lines remained in operation, including one that ran from 42nd Street up to 125th along Tenth, Amsterdam and Broadway. Passengers boarded and deboarded at traffic islands in the middle of the street. This could be dangerous in New York traffic. The automobile driver, Marjorie Smith, 37, of Nutley. NJ., crashed into the stanchions placed around the site. The injured men were James Conlon, 46, of 1561 Lexington Avenue, who had a fractured hip, and Jack Healy. 58, of 157 W. 105th Street, who had a fractured leg. Both men had been taken to St. Vincent's Hospital on West 14th Street.
Play School Associates Conference
Craig McGeachy, director of the Welfare Division of the UN relief agency. was the featured luncheon speaker the 29th annual conference of Play School Associates. whose members administered after school activities. Everyone it seemed wanted someone from the new United Nations and the famine in Europe was a hot topic. She spoke of the remarkable spirit shown by the destitute people she had encountered in her recent official visit to Czechoslovakia and France. African American novelist Ann Petry also addressed the 400 attendees about her recently published novel The Street, the story of a woman's struggle against the social conditions and violence in Harlem. She said she had written the book in the hope that people would address the problem. She herself had worked in an after school program in Harlem There was an interview with Petry in the feature section of the paper that day. Ernest O. Melby, dean of the NYU School of Education, also spoke.
An Incorrigible Pickpocket
The Sunday Herald Tribune had more on the incorrigible Moe Greenberg. also enountered in the Sunday News. Greenberg, a 51 year-old from Fairmount Street in the Bronx, was arrested for the 34th time since 1914. This time around he was accused of lifting the wallet of Barney Morgan of 156 Fifth Avenue on the IRT subway. The paper reported that Morgan had followed Greenberg to a restaurant at 420 Seventh Avenue, near Penn Station. On demand Greenberg had returned the wallet, which contained $90 in cash and a check for $400 (almost $4500 in 2009 money), and a pack of cigarette. When Morgan called for a cop, Greenberg asked for the cigarettes back. Morgan's address actually is an office building.
A Protestant veterans outreach, Holy Week and Passover services. (See link)
The New York Philharmonic's Pop Concerts
Opening day of the Pops concerts of the New York Philharmonic would include a performance from baritone Robert Merrill, as well as the sight of former mayor LaGuardia wielding a baton. Merrill would sing excerpts from "La Traviata," "The Barber of Seville," Romberg's operetta "Desert Song" and Friml's "Three Musketeers." The orchestra would play works by Rossini, Tchaikovsky, Jerome Kern, Wolf-Ferrari, Gershwin, Khachaturian and Johann Strauss. Merrill, born Moishe Miller in Brooklyn, had made his Metropolitan Opera debut in December 1945 after winning the "Metropolitan Auditions of the Air" radio competition.
American Airlines Adds DC Flights
American Airlines was adding seven flights to its NY to DC run. This was in addition to 18 existing flights from NY or Newark. The airline used 21-passenger DC-3s and one 50 passenger DC-4 on the route,
Several articles announced events, fundraising events and special exhibits sponsored by city institutions. (See link) It also had several pages of society weddings and engagements.