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14 around a quarter to five Leggett, NYWF Archives.
15 Patrolman Emil Vyskocil Ibid.
16 twelve inches by eighteen by six Koester, NYWF Archives.
17 cut away a two-inch strip Ibid.
18 “This looks like the real goods” “Death at the Fair,” Time, July 15, 1940.
19 “It’s the business” “Police Die in Blast,” New York Times.
20 Federer and Gallagher Leggett, NYWF Archives.
21 “It was terrible” “Bomb from British Pavilion Kills 2,” Washington Post.
22 “It was a terrible explosion” Ibid.
23 “As to the accident” “Mayor at Scene, Reassures Public,” New York Times, July 5, 1940. 307 “We get letters” Ibid.
24 just more fireworks “Crowd Unaware of Bomb Tragedy,” New York Times, July 5, 1940.
25 “There had been” “War Atmosphere Created by Blast,” New York Times, July 5, 1940.
26 “I thought no more about it” “Police Die in Blast,” New York Times.
27 “All the buildings” “Mayor at Scene,” New York Times.
28 “Who died?” Becker, “Remembering Ultimate Sacrifice.”
29 “There will be a most thorough” “Mayor at Scene,” New York Times.
30 Morlach continued working “100 Examined in Bomb Round-Up; City Will Offer a $25,000 Reward,” New York Times, July 6, 1940.
CHAPTER 25: AFTERMATH
1 “I take my hat off” “640,000 Throng Fair on 4-Day Week-End,” New York Times, July 8, 1940.
2 “the reverse was the case” “Guarded Pavilions Visited by Crowds,” New York Times, July 6, 1940.
3 “Miss General Motors 1960” Ibid.
4 “We are mobilizing” “All Police in City on 24-Hour Duty,” New York Times, July 5, 1940.
5 “war atmosphere” “War Atmosphere Created by Blast,” New York Times.
6 “I’ll kill her!” “Experts Find Clue in Bomb Fragments,” New York Times, July 7, 1940.
7 “It was only” James Pyke, “Handling of Suspected Bombs and the Investigation of Explosives,” Spring 3100, July 1942, pp. 4–5.
8 the “dynamite shrapnel” “Dynamite Thief Sought in N.Y. Fair Bombing,” Washington Post, July 6, 1940.
9 arrest of a man named Caesar Kroeger Ibid.
10 “Mail to the address inside” “Experts Find Clue,” New York Times.
11 “This is just to tell you” “2 New Clues Found in Fatal Bombing,” New York Times, July 8, 1940.
12 a growing panic “N.Y. Power Lines Guarded After New Bomb Threat,” Washington Post, July 8, 1940.
13 “near the convention hall” “FBI Denies Convention Bomb Story,” Washington Post, July 12, 1940.
14 “was addressed to the Governor” Ibid.
15 Sixteen hundred mourners For details of the Lynch and Socha services, see “City Votes $25,000 for Bomb Reward,” New York Times, July 10, 1940.
16 “I urge your boys” “All Police Asked to Join Bomb Hunt,” New York Times, July 9, 1940.
17 “For God’s sake” “1,500 Detectives at Bomb Conference Today; Valentine Will Order Them to ‘Break Case,’” New York Times, July 11, 1940.
18 “If only the persons responsible” “Valentine Warns of More Bombings,” New York Times.
CHAPTER 26: CURTAINS
1 “I have convened” Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe.
2 “Since the outbreak of the war” Clark, Einstein: The Life and Times.
3 “[Immigrants] are the only ones” Albert Einstein, “For ‘Wall of Fame’ of World’s Fair New York 1940,” Albert Einstein Archives, 28–529.00.
4 “I am convinced” Clark, Einstein: The Life and Times.
5 “Don’t buy these programs, folks!” Shalett, “Epitaph for the World’s Fair.”
6 “Baby Crawling Contest” “Notes and Comment,” New Yorker, August 3, 1940, p. 9.
7 “Why not?” Richard M. Ketchum, The Borrowed Years: 1938–1941 (New York: Random House, 1989).
8 “The World’s Fair made it possible” “Clear Site on Time, Moses Warns Fair,” New York Times, August 15, 1940.
9 “I suggest that there be no doubt” Al Smith letter to NYWF board of directors, April 22, 1936, NYWF Archives, B13, F2.
10 “In fact, Fair officials” “Use of Fair’s Steel in Defense Likely,” New York Times, August 19, 1940.
11 “Common sense will tell you” “Gibson Backs Plan for Camp at Fair,” New York Times, August 25, 1940.
12 “There is a serious possibility” Ibid.
13 “Harvey D. Gibson” “Mayor Gives Press a Few Tips at Fair,” New York Times, August 20, 1940.
14 “‘Know your money’” Ibid.
15 “bankrupt and busted” “Inquiry into Fair Pledged by Moses,” New York Times, August 27, 1940.
16 “find out why the Fair” Ibid.
17 “Honorable Mr. Gibson” Letter to Harvey Gibson from Pablo Albortt, August 16, 1940, NYWF Archives, B14, F2.
18 “constructed like a jigsaw puzzle” “Futurama, Hit of Fair, Will Not Be Preserved,” New York Times, August 27, 1940.
19 On August 6 “Penn Station Bomb Is Innocent Clock,” New York Times, August 7, 1940.
20 “might go off at any moment” “Bomb Tip Proves Hoax,” New York Times, August 10, 1940.
21 “Hey, fellows, that’s my bag” “‘Bomb’ Bag Is Ducked, Youth’s Shirt Wilts,” New York Times, August 11, 1940.
22 “another bomb” “3 Bomb Alarms Prove to Be False,” New York Times, August 15, 1940.
23 “to pick up survivors” Ibid.
CHAPTER 27: WHALEN, GRAVISNAS, FORBINE, AND NOBILITY
1 “forfeit their lives” “Fair’s Foreigners Face Crisis Oct. 27,” New York Times, October 3, 1940.
2 “almost wild” Ibid.
3 “I can assure you” “Mayor in New Plea Invites All to Fair,” New York Times, October 12, 1940.
4 “Good old Grover” Whalen, Mr. New York.
5 power failure “Rush As Fair Ends Brings Out 537,952, Its Biggest Crowd,” New York Times, October 28, 1940.
6 “Have you caught” Boyer, “World of Tomorrow, Or Next Day.”
7 “It was a crossword puzzle” Meyer Berger, “At the Fair,” New York Times, October 28, 1940.
EPILOGUE: ASHES TO ASHES
1 In the end For a complete financial rundown of the World’s Fair over both seasons, see Tyng, Making a World’s Fair.
2 “very happy in their experience” Milton Bracker, “Profit of 1940 Fair Thus Far Is $696,118; 5% Payment on Bonds Is Likely in August,” New York Times, July 10, 1940.
3 “The bonds” Hellman, “For City and for Coty II.”
4 The city itself couldn’t A. J. Liebling, “World of Five-Cent Hot Dogs,” New Yorker, August 5, 1939, p. 34; “Curtains,” Time, November 4, 1940; Shalett, “Epitaph for the World’s Fair.”
5 One bright winter afternoon “Whee!” New Yorker, December 7, 1940, p. 27.
6 Various parts of the Fair For details about the Fair’s demolition and what became of some exhibits, see Eugene Kinkead, “Goodbye Folks!” New Yorker, May 31, 1941, pp. 38–44.
7 In 1943, a reporter “Plowshares into Swords Note,” New Yorker, March 6, 1943, p. 9.
8 “profound thanks” “Heroes of Fair’s July 4 Bombing Win British Government’s Tribute,” New York Times, April 16, 1941.
9 “In the name of” Ibid.
10 “The perpetrator of that crime” Ibid.
11 “to take a bomb from” For details on Pyke’s innovations in bomb safety, see James A. Pyke, “The La Guardia–Pyke Bomb Carriers,” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (September/October 1943): 198–205; Pyke, “Handling of Suspected Bombs,” Spring 3100.
12 “Einstein asks me” Clark, Einstein: The Life and Times.
13 “Oh, my God!” Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe.
14 “I made one great mistake” Clark, Einstein: The Life and Times.
15 “How ar
e you, Commissioner?” Hellman, “For City and for Coty I.”
16 “The little mind” “Notes and Comment,” New Yorker, April 29, 1939, p. 15.
17 “Didn’t they realize” Hellman, “For City and for Coty I.”
18 he watched on television Michael Aronson, “Grover Whalen Welcome to New York City,” (New York) Daily News, April 9, 1999.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JAMES MAURO is a former editor of Spy magazine and executive editor of Cosmopolitan. Most recently he was editorial director for Moffly Media, publishers of the Connecticut periodicals Greenwich, Stamford, Westport, New Canaan-Darien, and AtHome. His writing has been featured in Radar, Details, Spy, Psychology Today, and a host of other publications. He lives in Connecticut, where he is at work on his next book. Visit him online at www.jamesmauro.net.
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