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Robert Daley

Robert Daley, European sports correspondent for the New York Times , has been writing since he was twelve, at which age he started a novel called Mike Wynne’s Bike Trip , first of a projected twenty-volume series. But after five chapters, he says, “I decided it was childish and gave it up.” This article is based on Mr. Daley’s The World Beneath the City , recently published by Lippincott.
For further reading: “Boss” Tweed , by Denis Lynch (Boni and Liveright, 1927); Fifty Years of Rapid Transit , by James B. Walker (Law Printing Company, 1918); Tammany Hall , by M. R. Werner (Doubleday, Daran, 1928).

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Underneath Broadway the workmen dug in secret. Then a startled public learned that their city had—a subway