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...found they stood 9-to-1 against the double bill. Last fortnight Cue decided to broaden the scope of its inquiry, queried 150,000 residents of Greater New York, New Jersey, Long Island, Westchester and Connecticut. Last week first results of Cue's new poll were in. Fran Darien. Conn, down through the towns and villages flanking Long Island Sound, and in sections of New York City, the double feature was taking a decisive beating, ranging from 19-to-1 in Darien to 2-to-1 in The Bronx. Only reversals: heavy pro votes in Montclair (N. J.) Academy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Double Trouble | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...story told to properly dumbfounded reporters in Panama City, he stayed seven months with the primitive Indians in the Darien back country, then pushed on through Central America. Except for being robbed once, his luck held. By truck and Shank's mare he reached La Libertad. There he stowed away on a freighter bound for Vancouver. Seven days later he staggered out of the hold, walked unmolested down the gangplank at San Pedro. When he asked where the car tracks went, a workman said: "To Los Angeles, you done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fugitive | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Balked by a Coast Guard cutter in his attempt to reach Florida by canoe, Richard W. Hourtley '40 returned yesterday afternoon to his mother at Darien, Connecticut...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COAST GUARD CUTTER SENDS DISGRUNTLED PADDLER HOME | 1/6/1938 | See Source »

...urgent instigation of the Darien, Connecticut, boy's mother, during the last few days forty Coast Guard cutters from three States have been combing the seas from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras in a desperate endeavor to discover the whereabouts of the prodigal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIAMI-BOUND PADDLER LOCATED IN L. I. SOUND | 1/5/1938 | See Source »

...request of the Darien, Connecticut, boy's mother, forty Coast Guard cutters from three states piled coastal waters yesterday, but latest reports did not reveal the whereabouts of man or boat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PADDLER BOUND FOR FLORIDA ELUDES COAST GUARD POSSE | 1/4/1938 | See Source »

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