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...book begins at Krebs' famous inn at Skaneatles, wanders to Lily Dale and Chautaqua, back to the Genesee country, and through the Bristol Hills. It follows an aimless route in the Rochester-Geneseo-Buffalo area, through to the Binghamton-Ithaca "Storm Country", "Down the Bear Path Road" of Central New York, up North to the Adirondacks, "Land of Frozen Flame." Hit and miss Mr. Carmer picks up local anecdotes, Indian superstitions, regional customs, scenic wonders, as he goes. It is a peculiar system of newsgathering he uses, here depending on what he sees and knows, here taking in the stories...
...strike of rayon workers, who were working 56 hours a week at 16? to 18? an hour. At 2 a. m. one morning a mob of truculent citizens routed him out of his hotel room and, with pistols in his ribs, drove him to Bristol, Va. By 8 a. m. he had hired a car, started back to Elizabethton where he and the union committee, with their wives and children, settled down in a shack opposite the sheriff's office and lived there for three weeks, standing guard by turns with rifles...
Lansing F. Robinson '39, Brooklyn, New York; Benson Rosenberg '37, Elizabeth, New Jersey; Arthur N. Rosenbloom '37, Rochester, New York; Leonard J. Rosenfeld '37, Staten Island, New York; Max W. Rosenfeld, ocC, Bristol, Connecticut; Major Rudensey '38, Montclair, New Jersey; Maurice Sapienza '37, Irvington, New Jersey; Howard L. Schnur '38, New York City; Paul P. Selvin '39, Hartford, Connecticut; Robert E. Shalen '37, Brooklyn, New York; Chaloner B. Slade '39, Glen Ridge, New Jersey; Russell J. Stern '39, Brooklyn, New York; Harold LeR. Stubbs '39, Scarsdale, New York...
...would build one all by himself. The new boat will cost some $400,000. She will be the first individually owned defender in 50 years. Because her designer, W. Starling Burgess, works for the Bath (Me.) Iron Works she will be built there instead of at Herreshoff's Bristol, R. I., yard, birthplace of all defenders since...
...made his first flight in a Maurice Farman "Longhorn," with his doubled-up knees interfering with the "handlebars" that worked the ailerons, he could understand why the War Office had almost turned him down at first glance. For the airplanes at that stage of the War -the Avros, Moranes, Bristol Bullets, DH 4's-were designed with little thought for the comfort or convenience of the men who flew them. Like the prehistoric pterodactyl, which they somewhat resembled in appearance, most of these types are extinct now, were being supplanted before the War was over. Gaunt, unstable contraptions, held...