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...collecting official of Langley Aviation Corporation of Port Washington. But she hated the Captain, whose collection of paintings was the pride of his Manhattan apartment. Three weeks ago, while Mrs. Sickles and the family were vacationing in Bermuda, the Captain ordered Marie to ready up his country place at Hampton Bays, Long Island, for weekend guests...
Brooding over a fancied insult in connection with the order, Marie got a razor, slashed the Black Boy from its frame, toted it, with the other two pictures, to the Hampton Bays estate. There she built a fire in an outdoor oven, burned the Black Boy and Charles the Bold to a crisp, scattered the half-charred remains of the Wayfarer on the beach, where the tides of Shinnecock Bay soon swallowed them. The Black Boy was insured for $25,000, the other two for $19,000. Last week, recovering from a suicide attempt in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital...
...Armstrong Richards (Basic English), of Cambridge University and Harvard; Progressive Educator William Heard Kilpatrick, of Columbia University's Teachers College, and his vigorous wife; dark young Philosophy Professor Max Black, of University of Illinois; stocky young Robert Bauer, an Austrian youth leader; bush-browed Malcolm MacLean, president of Hampton Institute; others of whose practical idealism Leader Schairer felt sure...
There the Hampton Co., cotton finishers, had set up a 1,500,000-lb.-per-year rayon plant as an experiment, discovered that American Viscose, Du Pont and Industrial Rayon were hard on newcomers, shut their plant in 1939. The machinery has been for sale ever since. Naselli bought it with money raised in Mexico, last week had men dismantling it for removal to San Angel, suburb of Mexico City. By mid-1943, says he, its production will be expanded to 6,000,000 lb., enough to make Mexico virtually self-sufficient in rayon...
Goodman himself has been one of the first to grant the colored musician equal opportunity to star in the big time. Ever since Teddy Wilson joined him in 1935 he has had one or more Negroes occupying important places in his organization. Wilson and Lionel Hampton, the versatile vibraphonist and demon of the two-fingered piano, both gained so much publicity that they have now broken off and launched their own bands. And now Charlie Christians and Cootie Williams, two other colored virtuosi, are performing with Goodman's sextet...