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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary Cohan, estranged daughter of Actor George M. Cohan, whose elopement with George Ronkin, accordion player at the Manhattan nightclub where she sings, was foiled by Pennsylvania's three-day marriage law (TIME, March 11), tried again and was married at Doylestown, Pa. Said she: "I'm sending my father a-telegram. I wouldn't try to phone him. A wire's much better." On the 50th anniversary of its first production, Cavalleria Rusticana was produced at the Royal Opera House in Rome. Its composer, Pietro Mascagni, aged 76, not only heard it but wielded...
Mary Cohan, estranged daughter of Actor George M. Cohan, whose elopement with George Ronkin, accordion player at the Manhattan nightclub where she sings, was foiled by Pennsylvania's three-day marriage law (TIME, March 11), tried again and was married at Doylestown, Pa. Said she: "I'm sending my father a-telegram. I wouldn't try to phone him. A wire's much better...
...unnamed red fox: the 144th anniversary Bayard Taylor Memorial Hunt, biggest fox hunt ever held in the U. S.; outwitting 140 hounds (seven packs); before 10,000 spectators; on the estates of Pierre S. du Pont and W. Plunket Stewart in Chester County, Pa. After a chase of six miles, the fox jumped to the roof of a shed, climbed through a window, was rescued just as the hounds approached the door. Carried off in a sack, the fox was released after the hounds were called...
Nine years ago in Bradford, Pa., an engineer named C. G. ("Center of Gravity") Taylor gave up the corporate ghost trying to manufacture and sell a light, cheap airplane, the Taylor Cub. On the auction block went his two-year-old Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corp. For $522.50 a native Bradford boy, husky, genial William Thomas Piper, ex-oilman, engineer and Harvard hammer thrower, whose flying experience consisted of one short ride, bought the defunct firm. With an additional $2,877.50 he formed Taylor Aircraft Co., took Taylor in as partner...
...fuselages, spare parts were saved. When he got back, he found his mechanics out on the field putting together a plane with one silver wing, one red one. Pocketing his $75,000 loss (virtually no insurance), he bought a fireproof brick building from Susquehanna Silk Mills in Lock Haven, Pa., 80 miles away, renamed his company Piper Aircraft Corp., and started over. His loss for the year was only $39,555, and in 1938 profits were $14,031. Last year he added a fireproof repair shop, 15 hangars, a shipping room, and profits zoomed...