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...NOEL BLEECKER VAN WAGENEN Towanda...
...train curled acrid yellow fumes. President Hedley did not need to be told something was seriously wrong. He at once took mastership of the situation. Shouldering his way through the pack of nervous passengers to the front car, he told the motorman to stop beside a local at the Bleecker Street station. At his command the guards slid open the side doors. Using seats to bridge the gap between the tracks, the subway's president supervised the herding of passengers through the local train safely to the station platform. Afterwards President Hedley explained: "My actions were unnecessary...
...JOHN S. BLEECKER JR. Danbury, Conn. Compass...
...Looking younger than his age (43) he earns about $5,000 per week, takes a swim every day, has a mild aptitude for humorous anecdotes which he acts out gravely as he goes along. Last spring he was implicated in a charge of breaking the jaw of one Rutger Bleecker Jr. It was rumored that when patrons of a roadhouse were praising Bancroft, Bleecker, small but unabashed, strode to his table, said: "Personally, I think you're lousy." The case was dismissed...
Indoor Hop. When Inventor Maitland Barkelew Bleecker brought forth the helicopter on which he had been working for four years with Curtiss engineers (TIME, June 30) a fault in the lubricating system prevented flight tests. Last week changes had been completed, but conditions were not yet right for outdoor flying. Impatient, youthful Inventor Bleecker tied a rope to the keel of the little machine inside its hangar at Valley Stream, Long Island. Then he started the motor, entered the cockpit, gently opened the throttle. The craft rose vertically from the hangar floor, hovered under the roof...