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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Annulled. The marriage of General Giuseppe ("Peppino") Garibaldi, famed Italian soldier-of-fortune, and Madelyn Nichols Taylor Garibaldi, Manhattan socialite; in Nyack, N. Y. Reason: argument over the legality of Mrs. Garibaldi's divorce (Mexican) from her first husband, Stevenson Pierce Taylor...
...John's College (Brooklyn, N. Y.) William C. Redfield, first (1913-19) U. S. Secretary of Commerce LL.D...
...annual Metropolitan exhibit for the 30 most talented children (15 boys, 15 girls). "You needn't congratulate yourselves on your talent," Dr. Fritz tells his protégés. "It isn't any fault of yours." Ronald Joseph has stayed with the Fritz class for six years. He was the first to be given a special section in the Metropolitan. So far his success has not spoiled him. He says: "I have a fifty-fifty chance of doing something good...
...eleventh plane flew across the North Atlantic last week, ten years to the day after the first non-stop transoceanic flight. Three young Frenchmen?Jean Assolant, René Lefevre and Armeno Lotti. Jr.? made last week's crossing, from Old Orchard, Me., to Oyamers, near Santander. Spain, 3,128 flying miles, in 29 hr. 52 min. Neither crossing, distance nor time was exceptional...
...flight was the first accomplished this season, and the first North Atlantic crossing ever made by a French plane, a Bernard monoplane named Yellow Bird, with a null motor. A 160-lb. stowaway, one Arthur Schreiber, 22. traveled in it, to the hazard of the crew and the handicapping of the flight...