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...real life radio's Superman is the father of three small children (two girls and a boy), and superintendent of an interdenominational Sunday school at Manhasset, N.Y. Since he took over, the Sunday school's attendance has increased from 700 to 1,250. At first some children expected him to work miracles before their eyes. Now they understand that Clayton is not the real Superman-he merely plays him. Most embarrassing question Sunday-school pupils ask: Is there really a Superman? Clayton's sly answer: They will have to find that out from someone else...
...would rather read Tom Sawyer than The Rover Boys any day, if they had the choice. Miss Phyllis R. Fenner is sure of it, and she ought to know. For nearly 20 years tweedy, witty little Miss Fenner has presided over a remarkable library in the elementary schools of Manhasset, L.I. Miss Fenner has a sympathetic ear for what children really like, and her library is a favorite hangout of Manhasset moppets. In "Our Library" (John Day; $1.75), Miss Fenner explains: "Give the children the adventure they crave, but give them books written with sincerity and honesty...
Novelist Adela Rogers St. Johns, 45, hurrying from Manhattan to Manhasset, Long Island at 3 a. m., found herself half way home in a parked cab, the driver having stepped out for a moment. Next to her cab was another, likewise chauffeurless. Impulsively Miss St. Johns switched cabs, taking the cabby's seat. From the lunchwagon emerged two cabbies, one minus fare, the other minus cab. Miss St. Johns presently faced charges of driving a cab without an operator's license, passing a red light, driving while intoxicated. Novelist St. Johns' latest book, to be published...
...Yankee Clipper is ready, sir, standing by for orders," Skipper La Porte answered with self-conscious crispness. From his swarthy chief he took the manifest, went aboard, and gave the command to cast off. Out on Long Island's Manhasset Bay, the Clipper headed into the wind. The thunder of her four engines re-echoed from the hangars as she got up on the step. In a few more seconds...
Cardinal Pacelli visited the U. S. "personally and privately" in autumn, 1936. The late Mrs. Nicholas Brady (later Macaulay) was his hostess at Manhasset, L. I. He lunched with the Roosevelts at Hyde Park, addressed the National Press Club in Washington, went to Philadelphia and Boston, toured by air as far west as San Francisco. First Pope in history to have personal knowledge of the U. S., Pius XII has cousins in Flushing and Jordan...