. The Ladies' home journal. NEW YORK PHK best place we know near by to-*- brush I he cobwebs away in a hurryis next door to the Workshop. Take anelevator to the top (70 stories in 38seconds in the fastest elevator in theworld), and get out in a gale—if itsMarch. Along with 1350 other visitorsa day you look down on a city wherepeople are making ,000 tele-phone calls every twenty-four hours,of which 125,000 are wrong numbers:patronizing 22,000 soda fountainsand 10,0(t0 taxis; where every fiveminutes a baby is born, and everyseven theresa marriage—with a lowerdivorce rate than any other big
. The Ladies' home journal. NEW YORK PHK best place we know near by to-*- brush I he cobwebs away in a hurryis next door to the Workshop. Take anelevator to the top (70 stories in 38seconds in the fastest elevator in theworld), and get out in a gale—if itsMarch. Along with 1350 other visitorsa day you look down on a city wherepeople are making ,000 tele-phone calls every twenty-four hours,of which 125,000 are wrong numbers:patronizing 22,000 soda fountainsand 10,0(t0 taxis; where every fiveminutes a baby is born, and everyseven theresa marriage—with a lowerdivorce rate than any other big cityin the land. The towers not quite sotall as the Empire State, but just aswindy. And when the worlds tallestcelebrity, General de Gaulle, was upthere a while back, the only thing hesaid was, Ou est Brooklyn? Every other Wednesday our usuallyserene reception room becomes a noisywelter of pipes, portfolios, mustachesand gag chatter; for Wednesday inNew York is the day when cartoonistscome out from behind their drawing. Gag day at tlie Workshop. boards to proffer their wares to the car-toon editors—the job held by .IntinHarm. Judy figures she sees aboutsixty cartoonists each alternate Wednes-day; smiles at a thousand drawings, notto mention the thousands a month thatcome in by mail; from all of which sheculls the dozen or so we use in each issueof the Journal. One recent Wednes-day, with the customary crowd waitingto see Judy, her husband came in topick her up for lunch. Youll have towait, the new receptionist told him,taking him for another are fourteen ahead of you. The police department here has had somany calls from housewives who findthemselves in various predicaments at
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