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...Cage, located right in Courtroom D in the Connecticut Superior Court in Bridgeport, functions as a temporary jail cell for men who haven't made bond. The dozen men held inside, their hands shackled behind them, were arrested over the weekend and are awaiting arraignment; new detainees are herded in and out all day. In the midst of this noise and mayhem, some of the accused meet their lawyers for the last time before approaching the bench and confer hastily through the metal mesh about their pleas. Though the state affiliate of the A.C.L.U. has brought a class action against...
...Manrique Bridgeport, West Virginia...
After much rehearsal, he and the master hit the show-biz circuit, breaking in the act at rural fairs and carnivals. Walt steadily improves, and so do his bookings: "We stunned them in Worcester. We wowed them in Springfield. They dropped their drawers in Bridgeport." His self-regard soars as well: "I was Walt the Wonder Boy, the diminutive daredevil who defied the laws of gravity, the one and only ace of the air." He is struck by the fact that his triumphs take wing in the same year, 1927, that Lindbergh flies across the Atlantic: "I didn't know...
Eighty spectators at the event were Universityof Bridgeport students, according to HiroywkiKobayashi, a Bridgeport student...
...witnessed WAVES drilling in our quadrangle; we saw some of our classmates participate in the communication program; we attended five o'clock socials with the naval officers studying at Harvard; and danced with busloads of service men from Fort Devans," writes Hermann, a part-time publications specialist from Bridgeport, Conn...