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Congresswoman Luce made no reply. But the Bridgeport (Conn.) Sunday Post (circ. 40,243), best newspaper in her home district, rose valiantly to her defense, roared back at the Russian giant: "Pravda . . . practically froths at the mouth. But it gives no answer to the carefully collated, factually documented articles which Mrs. Luce has been inserting in the Congressional Record...
Died. Simon Lake, 78, who invented the first modern submarine, intending it for peaceful uses (freight and salvage work); in Bridgeport, Conn. He made a small fortune (which would have been larger but for German infringement of his patents) by selling his sub to foreign countries when the U.S. did not buy it, finally got the U.S. interested just before World War I. He died poor, partly because of the money he blew on fanciful schemes to salvage sunken treasure by submarine...
Mucci's men were a tough breed. Formerly they had been a pack field artillery unit whom Mucci himself had trained as combat troops two years ago in New Guinea. Mucci was a West Pointer, son of a Bridgeport, Conn, horse dealer. In command of his Filipinos: Major Robert Lapham, who had been fighting with the guerrillas since before the fall of Corregidor. Mucci's force had suffered some casualties: three wounded, 27 killed...
...Fourth District after her tour Mrs. Luce found a curious reversal of the normal political situation in the county. The normally Republican sections -the so-called "station-wagon" vote in commuting areas-did not do as well by her as they might, whereas the factory girls of industrial Bridgeport, normally New Deal voters, made her a kind of heroine...
...secret leaked last week from the Sikorsky Aircraft division of United Aircraft Corp. at Bridgeport. Conn. The secret : the company is now operating the first helicopter production line in the U.S., and probably in the world...