The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-06-30
In New York
Rx pAuL HARRIsON

Now York.--Gotham's fabled Forty. .socond street and Broadway probably is no longer the "cross roads of the world" I'd nominate instead couple of relatively small areas . thousand feot above the gtroetB--tho observation terraces oe the Empire state building ana Rockefeller Center.
 Virtually everybody goes to the Al Smith John Raskob tower-vis. iting royalty, merchant princes. movie queens, cosmopolites OF every sort, and plenty of John and Jane ]. citizens from Keokuk and TlshomIngo. GrotG 0arbo went there alone tho last time she. was in town. Spent half an hour iean- Ing against the parapot and star. ing in melancholy fashion over the misty city. "vory luffly!" she said finally. And went home.
 Drinking in tho Sights
 With somo misgivings they hns ally Installed c bar atop the Elm. pire State, and it has turned out aii right. Mac, the bartender, says nobody gets high enough to want to turn cartwhcols on tho edge of the phrupot'
 It's Q nice place to spend on evening. what with tho restaurans ard orchostra ana all. From aSvv and night, which was about the nyerago for tho Wooiworth tower boforo it was dwarfod by newer gkytouchers. Buslness is 50 bad nt tho Woolworth now that It's souvenir concession has been closed. Tho Empire State sells souvenirs, of course, but the most popular Radget is q voice.records Ing machine which makog records to Do mailed to the folks back home. Dorothy dish tried to make ono and got stage fright before she could finish her allotted 1s6 GUppcrv Manhattan
 fhe Rockcfoliers haven't got around to putting . bar in their astral aerie. There will be one, q three.sided, siassed-in affair. with . sort of patio in tho middle for dancing. Just now, though. all you can get in the roof ioungo is . cup of ton or coffee, served by c pretty girl with the compliments of the house.
 Thore's . guest book. and every. ono is supposed to rogiater. Many people write tcrso little comments --"wonderfui," "marveious" and favoritos. A senor Iragayeri from iy improssed. Ho wrote simplyi ''Bahl" with q great flourish. ffii. dred Watchern, n Canadian, pen. nod m onigmatic "Tooar dodi' 4 man namod Thomas declared: "f sSs nses 'os of SSsrs nSssSs' K n,ssn b"Sn ans ns Margaret Tracy is tho cntry: we washed the dlshcs." Tho hostess snys yos, they actually did ask to Do allowed to wash tho dishes. It soomed to Dc some special secret whim, so she lot thom whsh | few cups and snucors.
 Center of Interest
 ono Of tho longest rubberneck tours in town--!t takes two hourS md costs n dollar---is conducted within Rockefeller Centor, and in. ciudcs everything from the foreign buildings on Fifth avenue to tho two theators and tho RIGA build. ing. Guides explain aii about the architecture and tho nurais. tho flora fn the gardens. the water in the fountains. From tho top Of tho central sky scraper they'll point out, q few clocks north, the red brick home of John D. Rockefeller, Br, and next to it, acrosg q concrete lawn, the house of John D., Jr. They'll tcii you that the iattor walks to oA TeAVn hla afgioaa lu thA hgttfd. ing, but they don't show you the offices. These arc, I can tell you, about the simplest ii the place plain plaster walls, c few pictures (no portraits of tho older Rocke- feiief), some rugs. John D., Jr's own office hhs s0frie wood paneiing. He work. at a table instead Of f tho place g an old roIl.top, now used by Q secretary but which used to belong to the oii.klng himself.