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Complete and gleaming on the floor of the Sikorsky plant in Bridgeport, Conn. last week stood the biggest passenger airplane ever built...
...loaf for bread. There was no milk in New Haven for two days. A Wilton mother bore her baby in front of an open fireplace and by candle-light after a doctor had dug through a 18-ft. drift to her door. Six funerals were postponed in Bridgeport, where banks and stores closed...
...prior to a dozen years ago when he settled in Sayville, L. I. First running a bona fide employment bureau, he soon began to evangelize a following of blacks and whites which quickly swelled to 2.000 visitors per day. He now operates "Kingdoms" in New York, Newark, Baltimore, Washington, Bridgeport. Most of his followers, "of high as well as of low intellectual capacity," believe him to be God or a "resurrected Christ" who has come to dwell on earth. Divine denies that he teaches he is God, but the Newark committee finds that he suffers his flock...
...crew of adolescent semi-amateurs. He corralled Author John Erskine's daughter Anna, Actress Mary Eaton's little brother Charles. Also he got a pretty girl named Georgette McKee whose father works for the Guaranty Trust Co. and another named Jacqueline Rusling whose father keeps store in Bridgeport, and a dozen other youngsters between 15 and 18. Their stage job was to behave as they had behaved in real life the day before yesterday. They twittered on like starlings, discovering a sly pleasure in mocking their past youth. Their beauty, spontaneity and decorum charmed Manhattan audiences. The star...
...Mollisons' eyelids were heavy, their muscles shaky, their fuel low. At 9:30 p. m. the Seafarer turned in for the airport at Bridgeport, Conn., 60 mi. short of Floyd Bennett. It buzzed low over the field but instead of heading into the wind, only safe way of taking off or landing a plane, it came downwind, zoomed aloft again. The field manager hopped into a plane, tried to lead the Mollisons to earth by making a landing into the wind in the floodlights. It was no use. The Seafarer, after circling wretchedly six times, stuck to its curious...