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October 13, 1935

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BOY HIT BY TROLLEY DIES OF HIS INJURIES; Father, Motorman of Same Line, Arrived to Find Son, 10, Honor Pupil, Under Car's Wheels.

By Unknown Author

Bernard McNabb Jr., 10 years old, of 1,819 Woodbine Street, Ridgewood, died early yesterday morning in the Wyckoff Heights Hospital, Brooklyn, of injuries received Friday evening when he was struck by a Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens Transit Company trolley car while crossing Woodbine Street near Onderdonk Avenue, Ridgewood.

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MORE OF THE NEWS AND GOSSIP OF BROADWAY; GOSSIP OF BROADWAY

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SIDNEY KINGSLEY, that playwright who won the Pulitzer Prize (1934) and did not bounce back ten minutes later with another play, is staging his first professional show. It is "Dead End," by himself, and he came out of a rehearsal at the Belasco Theatre the other day to call it "an experiment in technique, a step toward increased realism in writing and production."

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Notable Births

1935Etterlene DeBarge, American singer-songwriter (died 2024)[โ€ ]

Etterlene Louise Rodriguez was an American gospel singer, songwriter, and the matriarch of the American R&B/soul vocal group DeBarge. She was the author of Other Side of the Pain, which documented her struggles in her marriage to her children's father and her children's rise to fame and struggles under the spotlight.

Bruce Morrow

1935Bruce Morrow, American radio host and actor[โ€ ]

Bruce Morrow is an American radio performer, publicly known as Cousin Brucie or Cousin Bruce Morrow. In an October 2020 interview, Morrow said he received the moniker "Cousin" while in the lobby of his midtown Manhattan WABC studio when an elderly woman once asked him "Cousin, lend me fifty cents to get home" to whom he did give that fifty cents. The name stuck for six decades.