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Died. Ralph S. Damon, 58, president of Trans World Airlines; of pneumonia, in Mineola, N.Y. Energetic, inquisitive Harvardman ('18) Damon learned to fly before he learned to drive a car, was an air cadet in World War I, put the famed P47 Thunderbolt into mass production in World War II. Air travelers are in debted to Damon for helping develop 1) the first all-sleeper transport plane, and 2) low-cost tourist travel on both domestic and international lines...
...Sportsman William Woodward Jr., with a blast from a shotgun (TIME, Nov. 7). The widow was no longer a dazzling glamour girl: shock and grief had visibly aged her, and she was in a state of near-collapse. Her first stop after leaving the hospital was police headquarters at Mineola, N.Y. There Ann Woodward repeated her story that she had killed her husband in the dark under the impression that he was an intruder in their Oyster Bay home. Four days later, she told her story once more, to a grand jury. After listening to her testimony and the evidence...
Rain Brain. An electronic grid that touches off a buzzer alarm in the house when rain strikes it was put on the market by Micro-Moisture Controls. Inc. of Mineola. N.Y. Price...
Matter of Principle. In Mineola, N.Y., seeking a separation, Mrs. Winifred Albro, 72, charged that her husband Frederick had steadfastly refused to bathe during their twelve years of marriage...
...notable cursee: Judge Lewis J. Smith of Mineola, L.I., who, as Father Divine's followers are fond of noting portentously, died (at 50) some four days after he sentenced Father to jail (for constituting a public nuisance) in 1932. Said Father from his cell: "I hated...