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After extensive research, Crane found that an Austrian, Gustave Whitehead, who at one time lived in Bridgeport, Connecticut, may have made a flight as early as 1900--three years before Wright...
...President motored, the schools were dismissed and a general holiday proclaimed. At New Haven where Yale dormitories were decked with Landon banners but no boos were uttered, the President lunched with his eldest son's father-in-law, Dr. Harvey Gushing. Most enthusiastic crowd appeared in Socialist Bridgeport, but all through the shore towns of Fairfield County throngs packed the sidewalks and women and children were bumped by cars. At Stamford so many people jammed the station that it took police 15 minutes to get the President aboard his special, headed back to Washington...
...Treasury announced that, "not because of his circus but because of his philanthropic and civic contributions" to the city, the profile of the late, great Phineas Taylor ("P. T.") Barnum would appear on 25,000 U. S. half-dollars commemorating the Centennial of Bridgeport, Conn...
Longoria sold his process to Yoder Co. of Cleveland for an unannounced sum. Then Bridgeport (Conn.) Brass Co. raised indignant howls, claimed that the inventor had verbally contracted to sell the process to it for $600,000. In Cleveland last week Bridgeport Brass Co. was suing in Federal court to prevent the deal with Yoder Co. from bearing fruit...
...performers in the pit were no better than average. The Orpheus was Contralto Anna Kaskas from Bridgeport, Conn.; the Amor, Maxine Stellman from Brattleboro, Vt.; the Eurydice, plump Jeanne Pengelly, a native of Toronto, whose part was danced by pretty, half-clad Daphne Vane. Conductor Richard Hageman, rejoining the Metropolitan after an absence of 14 years, did his best by the stately, sculptured score. But only those, who were smart enough to close their eyes could reap its full benefit...