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Divorced. Harold I. June, flight commander of the 1933 Byrd Antarctic Expedition; by Mrs. June; in Bridgeport, Conn. Charge: intolerable cruelty...
...exigencies of traveling would cause the circus to abandon a large number of animals they had never owned. Without the animals they no longer had need of chimerical cages in which to keep them, so those were also listed as abandoned-so were wagons, horses and railroad cars. "Bridgeport, Conn.," said Mr. Burns in a rather bitter mood, "must have resembled a jungle when the circus moved from there to new winter quarters in Sarasota, Fla. in 1927. Income tax returns for that year show the abandonment of 46 elephants, 23 camels, 23 lions, 18 bears, hundreds of monkeys...
...Austrian father and a Hungarian mother, a girl baby was born 46 years ago in Bridgeport, Conn. As she learned to talk and experiment with things, little Bessie Pastor showed herself to be a bright child. In high school she diligently studied chemistry, later went to a technical school. To her girl friends she passed out soaps and lotions, the products of her own test tubes...
...children she knew, skating on a pond near Bridgeport, broke through the ice and drowned. The tragedy made a doubly strong impression on Bessie Pastor because she did a lot of skating herself. Then & there she resolved that she would some day create a safe kind of synthetic ice-not artificially frozen water, but some other solid compound that would offer a skater a smooth gliding surface. It might have other advantages over natural ice, but in Bessie Pastor's mind its primary quality would be safety...
Plans have been completed for the Society's annual spring trip to New York City, starting Friday, April 1. Special U. S. Navy passes are being arranged for visits to the Hamilton Standard Propeller Co. in Hartford and the Sikorsky Airplane Co. in Bridgeport, but these limit the group to citizens of the United States...