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Amelia Earhart, 32, transatlantic flyer and her great & good friend George Palmer Putnam, 43, Manhattan publisher (divorced last year from Mrs. Dorothy Binney Putnam) were issued a marriage license at Groton, Conn. In Manhattan two days later Publisher Putnam said: "To marry Miss Earhart would be swell. But while it seems pretty definite that a marriage license has been issued, we have not been married and I cannot say when we will be." In Washington the same day Flyer Earhart said: "Let's not talk about the license. I can't be any more definite than...
...hair of the mamma dog. . . .well, I don't suppose I could feel any worse. . . . .hmmmm, not so bad. . . .I think I feel a little better. . . .does Arthur still send out ice?. . . .not such a bad idea. . . .come to think of it now I did have a pretty swell time last night. . . .of course I'm through with all that sort of thing. . . .still is there a dance tonight...
...Washington Boulevard's sidewalks and in niches are two side altars in marble, a complete set of Stations of the Cross, four shrines, four confessionals. Concealed organ loft and choir stalls are at balcony level on either side of the sanctuary. In the ceiling are an echo organ, a swell organ. Acoustics, at first feared, were last week pronounced perfect...
...entirely in accord with the spirit of your editorial this morning--It was the berries--Seriously I really thought it was swell...
...bride arrived at Manhattan from Sao Paulo last week. News reporters and photographers greeted them. Bishop Cannon: "I am an American citizen and don't wish to be harassed." Mrs. Cannon emerging from hiding in the freight hold screamed hysterically: "I suppose they [the reporters] think this is swell...