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Carey scathingly denounced Jandreau as a "Judas," got the union's conference board to agree to give him another week to reach a settlement with G.E. One week more was all the longer that some local chiefs thought they could keep their members out. Workers at the Bridgeport, Conn, plant had already returned; Pittsfield, Mass, was tottering, and Burlington, Vt. started action to declare itself independent of the I.U.E...
...first success, Country Lawyer, nostalgically portrayed his father and life in an upstate New York village, became a bestseller in 1939-40 and a movie, was followed by ten other works, including two on the automobile-Excuse My Dust and Fill 'Er Up!; of a stroke; in Bridgeport, Conn...
Died. Mary Agnes ("Polly") Thomson, 75, longtime word-of-finger translator and "sister" to blind, deaf Author-Educator Helen Keller; after long illness; in Bridgeport, Conn. Glasgow-born Polly Thomson, who never lost her Scottish burr, came to the U.S. in 1913, was hired by Helen Keller's formidable teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy, as secretary, stayed on after "Teacher" died in 1936 asking that Helen and Polly-"my two children"-remain together. Polly's "talking" fingers, working at a rate of 85 words a minute tapping out letters in Helen Keller's palm, became Helen...
...Rose. In Bridgeport, Mich., John Fisher was arrested after setting a bag labeled "Flower Fund" on a tavern bar, allegedly using the proceeds for his own drinks...
...school library, Dana was in business. Since, he has given $200,000 to Georgia's Berry College toward a new dormitory, $150,000 to North Carolina's Guilford College for its extension school, $350,000 to Connecticut's University of Bridgeport toward a science building. His object is to meet each school's crying need-halfway...