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...Boeing, and, since 1927, United Air Lines. And the nearest thing to a serious accident in his 24,000 hours of flying time was when he got lost in a fog over New York Harbor in 1920, had to make a groundloop forced landing in a small clearing on Staten Island...
Last Saturday, one of our more prominent Ensigns and one of our loveliest WAVES, after a four week whirlwind, high frequency courtship, completed a coupled circuit in a little church on Staten Island, New York...
...with affectionate pride. Like dozens of her sisters who do the monotonous patrol work of the war at sea. PC-487 is a modest, unspectacular little warship, about 170 ft. long, of 600 tons displacement. Her commander is a reserve lieutenant, chubby, ruddy W. Gordon Cornell, a Staten Islander...
From his home on Staten Island (where the F.B.I, arrested him this week) Spy Lehmitz kept close tabs on ship movements in New York harbor, picked up more information in bars from loose-lipped soldiers and sailors. To report all this in letters to Nazi agents in Zurich and Lisbon, old-fashioned Spy Lehmitz used an ancient device: between the lines of letters about Victory gardens and California sherry, he wrote his messages in invisible ink. Lehmitz pleaded guilty of espionage. U.S. authorities bugled: "One of the most important arrests...
...Nahant, Mass, and batted a rubber ball at each other. They had each won a game when it began to rain. The absorbed young players thereupon donned rubber boots and raincoats, played out the rubber game. It was not the first lawn tennis match played in the U.S. (a Staten Islander named Mary Outerbridge had beaten the boys to it) but it was historic. Enthusiasts Dwight and Sears soon got their friends to lay out courts on the fashionable lawns of Nahant and Newport, and 13-year-old Dick Sears, fascinated by the game, began to improve...