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The Big Town
Coleman, Mcalister | April 16, 1949 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Oath of Devotion," by Julius Isaacs. This autobiography by a former city magistrate is a testimony to the stimulating impact of the city upon a sensitive, outgoing personality who has never forgotten the oath of devotion he swore upon his graduation from the College of the City of New York back in 1917. The author mingles his personal and public life with the sounds and sights of New York and of other world capitals as well, and though his story of his emergence from the old East Side tenements is a familiar one, it is well to have it told again in these days of denial that any good may come out of "Megalopolis."

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BOOKS & reading; OATH of Devotion (Book); ISAACS, Julius; AUTOBIOGRAPHIES; CITIES & towns; JUDGES
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