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...bright-eyed little Negro girl from Keyport, NJ. rolled into Manhattan with a high-school diploma in her hand, and an idea in her head that she would become a "high dramatic soprano." But the big time was hard to break into: Juanita Hall was 35 before she padded onto a Broadway stage as Bloody Mary, the betel-chewing Tonkinese mama in South Pacific (TIME, April 18) and stole a considerable piece of that smash hit from Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza...
...Portland last week after taking 24 ballots, Episcopal clergy and laymen elected Very Rev. Benjamin Dunlap Dagwell, 45, to be Bishop of Oregon. Pennsylvania-born Churchman Dagwell held pastorates in Keyport, N. J. and Pueblo, Colo, before going to Denver and its Cathedral of St. John in the Wilderness, where at 34 he was one of the youngest Episcopal deans in the U. S. Hard-working Dean Dagwell is chairman of the Denver Bureau of Public Welfare. Said he of his election: "It leaves nothing to strive for, except to hold on to one's job through good work...
...Designer Vincent J. Burnelli at Keyport, N. J. has long been working on a "flying wing" for heavy commercial transport. Germany's four-motored Junkers 6-38 is sometimes called a "flying wing...
...first event was a "flight frolic of clowns" to attract the populace. Then civilians flew an elimination heat for low-powered ships entered to win the Aero Club of Pennsylvania trophy, the first home being Basil Rowe of Keyport, N. J., in a Thomas Morse SE-4. Pilot C. S. "Casey" Jones, a celebrated, daring and slightly comic figure from Garden City, L. I., placed third in this event, then stepped into a wing-clipped Curtiss Oriole and won the 84-mile Independence Hall free-for-all, tipping around the pylons at an average speed of 136.11 m.p.m., ahead...
...greatest difficulties in the operation of seaplanes is the soaking up of water by the wooden hull of a flying-boat. This means rapid deterioration and the extra weight of the soaked-in water spells less carrying capacity and smaller flying range. The Aeromarine Plane & Motor Co. of Keyport, N. J., is doing pioneer work replacing wooden hulls with metal duralumin. To show the Navy what his metal hulls could do, Inglis M. Uppercu, A. P. & M. President-likewise President of the Uppercu Cadillac Corporation of Manhattan, and a keen yachtsman-had one of his ships, the Morro Castle...