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Alicia Patterson Simpson Brooks Guggenheim, thrice-married favorite daughter of Captain Joe Patterson, last week all but called her father a liar. In her year-old tabloid, the Hempstead (L.I.) Newsday, pretty, 34-year-old Alicia wrote an editorial, THAT 80 PER CENT, about isolationist claims that "80% of the American people are against our going into the war." It began: "You remember the old gag: 'Figures don't lie-but liars sometimes figure.' " The 80% claim has been pushed particularly by the Chicago Tribune, published by her cousin Colonel Robert McCormick, and the New York Daily...
With a roar and a burst of flame his sleek P39 crashed among the houses of Hempstead (pop: 21,000), south of the air base. Mothers' cries, neighbors' shouts told the incoherent rest of the story of one of the saddest crashes in history. The P39 had fallen near three children at play, doused them with flaming gasoline. That day they died...
...flying is not experimental. Mitchel's are officers in combat squadrons assigned to the job of defending New York City and vicinity. At places like Hempstead pilots are forced to fly low over the city in landings or takeoffs. And 24-year-old Mitchel Field, representing an investment of millions, could not reasonably be abandoned nor could most of the Army's other great bases, which are cities...
...Darwell (for Ma Joad, in The Grapes), the noblest Oscar of them all (for Kitty Foyle) to Ginger Rogers, who wept, screamed "greatest moment of my life" and fled back to her table amid dog-show din, to subside tearfully on the proud shoulders of Kitty Foyle Producer David Hempstead. Walter Brennan of the removable teeth got his third gold statue as the best supporting male (Judge Bean, in The Westerner). To stuttering, slue-footed James Stewart, who stood low in this year's forecasts but high in esteem for an unrewarded 1939 job in Mr. Smith Goes...
...Folger's coffee. Coffeeman Folger was impressed when one of the first items disposed of on the program was Mr. Folger's speed boat ($800). The following year, when the air time was expanded to 15 minutes over CBS station KNX, the telephone response put the Hollywood, Hempstead and Hillside exchanges out of order, burned out the generator which operated the busy signal on one, caused the telephone company to demand the program be taken off. After hurried conferences and the installation of special facilities for handling the deluge, the next show drew 167,000 attempted calls...