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...huge that it shattered four windows on the bridge, stunned Captain Edward L. Trant, commodore of the White Star fleet, with a shower of heavy, leaded glass. When the Majestic docked in Manhattan Captain Trant, suffering from an infected scalp, was rushed ashore to a hospital. In a Mineola, L. I., court, to petition that her name be fixed once & for all, appeared Princess Xenia, daughter of the late Grand Duke George Michaelovitch of Russia, divorced wife of William Bateman Leeds. On her complaint that ''Mrs. William B. Leeds" gave rise to confusion and that "Princess Xenia...
...Mineola court last week Justice Paul Bonynge charged the jury...
Reversed in the Mineola, L. I. county court was last year's conviction of James Abram Garfield, grandson of James Abram Garfield, 20th President of the U. S., for reckless driving...
...camera tucked in his pocket." The adventures of news photographers can be fully as thrilling as those of newshawks. Ingenuity comes quite as much into play. Jack Price thinks the most ingenious stunt he ever saw was ''Crazy Johnny" O'Brien's, at a Mineola murder trial. Cameras were barred from the courtroom. The knot of photographers waiting outside was amazed one day to see O'Brien suddenly dash off at top speed down the street. "He's just crazy." they said. He came walking back, looking foolish. Next day he did the same...
...remember Clifford Harmon. Together in 1909 they had ballooned from St. Louis to Edina, Mo. for a 48-hr. U. S. duration record which still stands. Next year Harmon made another endurance record, which does not survive. It was in an airplane, first flight across Long Island Sound, from Mineola, L. I. to Stamford, Conn. Time: 2 hr. 3 min. At 64 Col. Harmon is dapper, bulky, heavy-jowled, horn-rimmed eye-glassed. He is currently much better known in Paris, where he has resided for 15 years, than in New York where he was an affluent realtor. He established...