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April 29, 1928

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OUR AUTHORS REFRESH EUROPE; Andre Maurois Says That the Old World Has Awakened to the New Literature Arising Here and Is Watching American Poets, Playwrights and Novelists With Growing Admiration

By Andre Maurois

PARIS. AMERICANS readily agree that, while their industries and their mechanical organization are duly appreciated abroad, their culture is un known. Is it? I don't think so.

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URGES CITY TO BUY SITES FOR AIRWAYS; Regional Plan in Final Report Advises Prompt Acquisition in 50-Mile Radius. LOOKS AHEAD FORTY YEARS Survey Says Airports Must Be Linked With the Other Transportation Facilities of New York. Sees Passenger Service. Six Locations Advised.

By Unknown Author

The prompt acquisition of ample areas "for all possible purposes in connection with air transportation" in New York City proper, and in the area within a fifty-mile radius of New York, is urged in the final report on Transit and Transportation which is to be published by the Regional Plan of New York and its Environs within the next few weeks.

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OBSERVATIONS FROM TIMES WATCH-TOWERS; NEW BAY STATE STAR Parkman's Victory in Primaries Turns National Light on Growing Leader. PHONE CANVASS FOR HOOVER Secretary Wins Without Outward and Visible Campaign--Easy Time for Smith.

By F. Lauriston Bullard. Editorial Correspondence of the New York Times

BOSTON, April 25.--Hoover won and Smith won and Parkman won in yesterday's primaries. The votes are not yet all counted but the important facts are all known and both victors and vanquished are busy with their interpretations.

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CALLS CITY STREETS MENACE TO HEATH; Academy of Medicine Group Reports on a Survey for Last Eight Years. OPEN REFUSE CANS CITED Committee Finds Other Forms of Uncleanliness--Urges the Cooperation of Public. WANTS BUREAUS TO ACT No Criticism of Present Regime, but Officials Will Be Asked to Adopt Reforms.

By Unknown Author

B Sachs in rept on clean streets by N Y Academy of Medicine scores open ash and garbage can and carts

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Quebec Province on Daylight Saving

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Notable Births

1928Carl Gardner, American singer (died 2011)^[†]

Carl Edward Gardner was an American singer, best known as the foremost member and founder of The Coasters. Known for the 1958 song "Yakety Yak", which spent a week as number one on the Hot 100 pop list, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

1928Heinz Wolff, German-English physiologist, engineer, and academic (died 2017)^[†]

Heinz Siegfried Wolff, was a German-born British scientist as well as a television and radio presenter. He was best known for the BBC television series The Great Egg Race.