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After work and on Sundays, Sikorsky & helpers had puttered for months over a strange, spindle-shanked machine in a corner of United Aircraft Corp.'s Vought-Sikorsky plant, across the road from the municipal airport at Bridgeport, Conn. Last week overalled mechanics trundled it on the field and a crowd gawked at its three-bladed, 14-foot overhead rotor (propeller), its spraddle-legged landing gear, its conventional airplane controls. Into the pilot's seat crawled Designer Sikorsky. The 75-h.p. engine back of the seat of his pants began to buzz, the rotor began to whirl. Three tiny...
...Bridgeport, Conn...
Divorced. Arline Judge, cinemactress; from Sportsman Daniel Reid Topping (part owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers), whom she married three years ago five hours after her divorce from Director Wesley Ruggles; in Bridgeport, Conn...
...Mary.'' "marry" and "merry" rank high among the shibboleths which Dr. Smith's victims are asked to say. A person who pronounces all three alike is probably from the Midwest, or, for some reason, around Bridgeport, Conn. "Mayry" spots a Southerner and a New Englander...
Because his birthday (66th) fell on St. Patrick's Day, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise of Manhattan was made an honorary member of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of Bridgeport, Conn...