Word: williamsporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Danish-born Pilot William Ulbrich, 31, Italian-born Dr. Leon Martocci Pisculli, Manhattan gynecologist, and Edna New comer, 28, a pretty, plumpish brunette nurse from Williamsport, Pa. Also aboard was a woodchuck named Tailwind. Announced purpose of the expedition was to permit Dr. Pisculli to study the effects of fatigue on transatlantic flyers. Believing that many ocean flights have ended tragically because of carbon monoxide gas in the cabin, Dr. Pisculli took along Woodchuck Tailwind (more susceptible to the gas than humans) as a safety gauge...
Take a pencil. Take a U. S. map. Draw a line from Canton, Ohio, to Williamsport, Pa., then to the middle of the southern Tennessee border, then back to Canton. Within that wedge lies the great eastern bituminous coal field. Mark off the central third of the wedge: the southwest corner of Pennsylvania, the northern spike of West Virginia, a narrow strip that lies beyond the Ohio River in Ohio. If you drive fast, your car will take you across that country in five hours. It is "The Pittsburgh Area." the richest bituminous deposit in the world, whence comes...
...been Stated Clerk of the Assembly-the Church's second most important position. He succeeds Dr. Hugh Thompson Kerr, famed radio preacher. Because many felt that the incumbent should not be both Stated Clerk and Moderator, a surprise candidate was nominated, Dr. David de Forest Burrell of Williamsport, Pa., who by getting 379 votes prevented Dr. Mudge's anticipated election by acclamation...
George Benjamin Luks of Manhattan, originally of Williamsport, Pa., was twice in the news last week. In Baltimore, as judge of a Pan-American exhibition of paintings opened with unction by Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson as "an outstanding event in the history of Pan-American cultural relations," he helped to award the $1,000 first prize to Alfredo Guttero of Argentina for a formalized, thick-necked Madonna somewhat reminiscent of the woodcuts of Britain's Eric Gill. The award moved Baltimore Catholics to indignant frenzy. Thundered the Catholic Review...
...Over the weekend President Hoover went to the mountain camp of Jay Cooke III, Philadelphia banker, near Williamsport, Pa. He fished with indifferent success in the cold waters of Larry's Creek. On his way home to Washington he stopped unexpectedly for Sunday service at a little rural Methodist church at Liverpool, Pa., drew a great crowd, dropped a tightly folded $5 hill into the collection plate...