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...Author. Born in Humphreysville (now Seymour), Conn, in 1826, John William De Forest dropped out of school at 13 after his father's death, wrote an authoritative history of Connecticut Indians at 25, spent two years in the Near East and Europe (where he translated Hawthorne into Italian) before he was 30, wrote two travel books and two reasonably successful novels. In 1856 he married Harriet Silliman Shepard and for the next few years divided his time between New Haven and Charleston, S. C. When Sumter was fired on he escaped from Charleston on the last ship going north...
...desirous of job. Has worked as reporter, copyreader, rewrite, book reviews, dramatic critic, war correspondent, sports writer, columnist and briefly as publisher. Of neat appearance, although labor agitator. Not sure of recommendation from present post. No reasonable offer will be refused. Address Mr. X., P. 0. Box 521, Stamford, Conn...
...frequency modulation. Last week these were put on sale in Newark, and this week they will be launched in New York. Price: $75 to $225. Stromberg-Carlson is also preparing to put sets on sale. Besides Alpine, two other frequency-modulating broadcasting stations (at Paxton, Mass, and Hartford, Conn.) are underway and others (Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, Washington, Milwaukee) are scheduled to get going soon. And some admirers of the Armstrong system predict that by next Christmas most radio purchasers within the 100-mile range of a station will insist on double-duty sets (both ordinary and Armstrong receptions...
Last week, however, it was Pratt & Whitney's turn to smile all over its corporate face. Over its East Hartford, Conn, plant roared a Vultee A19 motored by an engine of the old radial, air-cooled type that was half again as powerful as the Allison. Weighing slightly less per horsepower than the Allison, it could fit into small pursuit planes as snugly as a cartridge in a rifle breech...
Divorce Disclosed. Peter Arno (real name: Curtis Arnoux Peters), 38, clean-cut, cáfe-socialite cartoonist (The New Yorker); by Mary ("Timmie") Lansing, 24, beauteous socialite; her first, his second; in Litchfield, Conn. Grounds: "intolerable cruelty...