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...scene of "Inspector Charlie Chan" is a luxurious hunting lodge on Lake Tahoe: the characters: a famous diva, her four ex-husbands, her flance, and Mr. Chan. Two mysteries appear and two mysteries are solved, to the satisfactory entertainment of all, but Mr. Harrigan, as the Chinese detective, is pretty consistently embarrassed by his verbal luggage, and the diva's Yale-dictory is more strained than even a diva's valedictory should be. With these reservations, however. Charlie Chan is a recommended evening, a point which might handily be proved if it were not for the management's express injunction...
Trapdoors in the floor of the airship were slid forward and athwartships, exposing grey space through a T-shaped aperture slightly larger than the dimensions of the plane. From the rear cockpit Lieut. Daniel Ward Harrigan signalled with his hand. An electric winch began turning. Slowly the trapeze descended, lowering the plane through the T into the rushing airstream below the Akron's belly. Then 63-year-old Admiral Moffett, a parachute strapped to his stern, crawled down the trapeze into space, clambered over the airplane's wing and into the forward cockpit. Pilot Harrigan reached up, jerked a lever...
...days earlier the staff of six airplane pilots assigned to the Akron had begun regular duty. Commanded by Lieut. Harrigan they put in a day of "belly-bumping," making 104 take-offs and hook-ons in three hours, more than had been made in three years of experiments. Stationed aboard a lighter-than-air craft, among a lighter-than-air personnel, the "belly-bumpers" are extremely proud of their identity as a heavier-than-air detachment...
...HARRIGAN Lieut. U. S. Naval Air Station Lakehurst...
...Bill Harrigan of Kansas City was too fat to be placed in jail. He was freed because no cell could be found...