The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-17
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The sixth Ave. Napoleon who hands out mimeographed sheets filled with his own military plans for winning the war <. Souvenir shops still selling World Fair gadg- cts The organ playing in Grand Central Terminal-in tune with its majestic atmosphere |. . The Times So. bootblack who gives limitations of stars while polishing your boots The dulleSt job in town: The girls who remove the dishes from Automat tables The most expensive part of sky Hcrapers cannot be seen. The enor- nous foundations cost more than any section of the building Flrst-nighters who come to see the show and behave as though they were the attraction.
 Howcum some of the Broadway movie theaters have boosted the admission fee for servicemen? No matter how inclement the weather gray-haired lady bi- cycles through Central Park every ayem-garbed in sweater and shorts A quarter of a million Big TownerS cannot read or write, although New York is the center Of the nations educational activities One Union Squarehead orateS about the evils of money from a soapbox, but after his spiel asks for coin donations to carry on his alleged work Human knick- knacks scattered across shabby Bowery hotel Hobbies avidly debat- ing vital international issues . Waterfront derelicts killing time as time slowly kills them.
 If you'd learn something about music, stand in line with the opera bugs waiting to get into the Met opera gallery-and just listen to their gab The boxing fan atics near Madison Square Garden. They know the case history of every pugilist The doorman of a Park Avenue apartment hotel, who once dwelled in the penthouse of a nearby swanky place Our very little known Borough Presidents who are paid fatter wages than Congressmen . The enterpriSing yOungster who hawks hot coffee to long queues of persons waiting to view the Music Hall show . The mink-coated woman who feeds the pigeons on St. Patrick's Cathe- dral steps every morning.
 Why 1t is called The Big City: It contains more workers who arc paid more wages for producing more goods in more manufacturing places than in any other U. s. city . Double chin up girls scurrylng into 5th Ave. Beauty salons .. Cabbies with unlighted stogies between their teeth because smoking while driV- ing b tabu Theatrical stars who pay fancy fees for scotch'n's soda in sWanky joynts-.While they turn into clouds Small-time actors nursing cupacaWfee in caIeteriaS and wondering where the rent IS coming from. A scene that can fracture the illusions of the stage struck The Park Ave, movie temple with a special checkroom for NaWgs ToutS Shiyerlng, not from the cold, but the thawt oi having to work,
 West Indians playing a brisk game Of cricket every week end at Van Cortlandt Park D.. The shape oi slkyscrapers is now regulated by law since so many of them trans formed streets into sunless can- yons For some unknown req son Harlem has more dentists and doctors than any other section in town Oldest Of the film the- aters in New York-the one on the Bowery which offers only Chin csc pictures New York has newspapers in nearly every lan- guage. Including three Arabic ea- Zettes Among engrossing sights are the religious services in the Lenox Avenue (Harlem) Moorish temples The Buddhist temples