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Across the Sound. Whistling and whining across Long Island Sound, the big wind hit New England with increased fury. (Harvard observatory at Blue Hill, Mass. registered gusts of 186 m. p. h.) At Bridgeport, New Haven and New London, the storm waves hurled shipping into the streets and across railroad tracks. The crack Bostonian express train had to nose a house out of its way as it crawled, half-submerged, to safety, dragging telephone poles by their fallen wires, leaving all but one car behind in a washout. A capsized naval training ship started a fire in New London that...
David Monahan, of Bridgeport, Conn., as Assistant Surgical Adviser...
...last year Bridgeport Hydraulic Co., which supplies water to a large part of southwestern Connecticut, proposed to dam the Saugatuck, throwing it completely out of kilter. Local patriots rose to the defense of their river, with "Save the Saugatuck" their watchword. To defend groves threatened by the utility's axmen, women residents of the valley threatened to lash themselves to the trees. While Writers Stuart Chase and Deems Taylor protested, Fiddler Jascha Heifetz gave a "Save the Saugatuck" concert, devoted its proceeds to the cause...
Divorced. Katherine Ursula Towle Parrott Greenwood Wildberg, (Ursula Parrott) 36, author (Ex-Wife); from her third husband, John J. Wildberg, theatrical lawyer; in Bridgeport, Conn...
Married, Elizabeth Rogers Roberts, 32, daughter of Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts of the U. S. Supreme Court; to Charles Alfred Hamilton, 33, sales employe of Bridgeport Brass Co.; in Kimberton, Pa. At the wedding the Supreme Court mustered one less than a majority: Chief Justice Hughes, Associate Justices Roberts, Stone, Black...