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Still pink with pride over his giant Pan American Clipper (S-42), which lately flew the Pacific to Honolulu, Inventor Igor Ivan Sikorsky last week stood on the shore of Long Island Sound at Bridgeport, Conn, and beamed at his newest creation, a baby sister of the Clipper, known as S-43. Supposedly the world's fastest (200 m.p.h.) amphibian, the new Sikorsky weighs 19.000 Ib. loaded, seats...
Divorced. James Thurber, 40, one-eyed New Yorker writer, amateur artist famed for his shapeless women and droopy men (TIME, Dec. 31); by Mrs. Althea A. Thurber; in Bridgeport, Conn. Grounds: that he drank, was unfaithful, often got in fights which he invariably lost...
Suit Won. By Mrs. Luard Theodora Wells, first wife of Explorer Grant Carveth Wells; against Mrs. Zetta Robart Wells, his present wife (TIME, April 29); in Bridgeport, Conn. Alleging alienation of affections and misconduct, Mrs. Wells asked $50,000. A jury awarded her $3,000 on the first count, $2,000 on the second...
Sued. Mrs. Zetta Robart Wells, second wife of Grant Carveth Wells, dashing traveler and travel-writer; by Mrs. Luard Theodora Wells, the traveler's first wife; for alienation of affections; in Bridgeport, Conn. Traveler Wells, testifying for wife No. 2, asserted that wife No. 1 beat him with a riding crop, wrote sarcastic letters about his amours, called the birth of their child an obscenity...
...George Hanson was not to be long out of a job. Last week, while home on leave in Bridgeport, he was assigned as Consul General and Charge d'Affaires to be the ranking U. S. diplomat in Addis-Ababa, capital of Abyssinia. Informed observers interpreted the assignment not as a reward to George Hanson but as assurance that the State Department was deeply concerned with the promise of trouble between Italy and Abyssinia (see p. 18), wanted one of its best hands on deck...