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...World-Telegram: ". . . A sight of Corrigan himself, with the lean peaked face alight with the puckish smile, the same captivating gift coming, it seemed sure, from the Little Folk of the very land he startled." Said Edwin C. Hill of the Journal and American: "The Corrigan, as cocky a bantam as ever was, opened his eyes in a big, soft bed at the Hotel McAlpin today, and looked out upon a Broadway which had become for the likes of him a street of dreams. And he said to me, The Corrigan...
Thrice during the past fortnight. New York's bantam Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia addressed himself to Protestants on religious matters. As a guest of the annual Episcopal diocesan convention the Mayor, an Episcopalian, renewed his appeal for $1,000,000 for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (collected to date: $283,000). To Presbyterians celebrating the 200th anniversary of the New York Presbytery he said: "We could use some more of you; we might even be glad to make some exchange of some others, for you carry a weight in the social services of this city...
Undaunted by Austin's demise. Salesman Evans expects to make Bantam go by aiming at low income groups, keeping fixed costs $1,000,000 less than did Austin. Drawing no salary, from Bantam yet. President Evans is still wealthy enough to own and pilot two airplanes. Last year he won an air race from Miami to Havana...
...Bantam. The sole newcomer to U. S. automobile ranks is this week to be seen at Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt, having been denied space in Grand Central Palace because American Bantam Car Co. has not been in production a year. Practically the same size, but better streamlined and twice as powerful as the ill-fated American Austin (now defunct, though Austin Motor Co. Ltd. still prospers in Europe), the Bantam is being made in the old Austin plant at Butler, Pa. under the leadership of a onetime Austin salesman named Roy Samuel Evans who has had a genuine Horatio...
...most progressive industry displays new and wonderful improvements in U. S. mankind's most basic luxury. Improvements in 1938 automobiles are. however, neither new nor wonderful. Cars look virtually the same as last year, save for a few refinements of streamlining. Only one newcomer, a midget car named Bantam, makes its debut. Mechanical advances are meagre...