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...editors, Raymond E. ("Spike") Delaney,* had been a police reporter on the Bridgeport Telegram. He would rob a house and return to police headquarters, hear of the same robbery, cover the story. He would re-enter the house through the front door, give the policeman suggestions concerning the crime, return to his typewriter and write a florid story. He was a good friend, almost an assistant, of Bridgeport bluecoats. When a New Haven merchant suspected him of selling stolen jewels and telephoned for a Bridgeport policeman to come down, the policeman arrived to greet Mr. Delaney like a long-lost...
...relative of Bridgeport's famed fisticuffer, Jack Delaney, whose real name is Ovila Chapdelaine...
Heeney-Delaney. Flashy Jack Delaney wears a bathrobe made of violet velvet. He is an open classic boxer, a French Canadian, a former world's light-heavyweight champion. He lives in Bridgeport, Conn. Last week in Manhattan he threw his fast left upper cut again and again onto the chin of Thomas Heeney of New Zealand. Heeney shook off the jabs, bored in. Jack Delaney danced and backed up, ducked, countered, danced and backed up. He couldn't get his right past Heeney's high left shoulder. Often he clinched. Heeney got the decision, Delaney the applause...
Engaged. Miss Mary Morris Hincks, direct descendant of John Hart, first graduate of Yale, of Bridgeport, Conn.; to Florimond Joseph Dusossoit, onetime (1917) captain of the Dartmouth football eleven, Southern Advertising Manager of TIME, the newsmagazine...
Joseph Patrick Crosby of Jamaica Plain and Harold La Berne Holland of Dayton, Ohio, have been nominated for Permanent Class Committee; and Eduardo Andrade of Scarsdale, N. Y., and Richard Thomas Dunn of Bridgeport, Conn., were added to the list of nominees for the Album Committee...