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...final bonanza, the Freedom Stingers, the Chad Mitchel Trio, and Ozzie Davis will sing to the political enthusiasts
...Distinguished Service Medal, Air Medal with two Silver Oak Leaf Clusters, Distinguished Flying Cross, etc., and a drawerful of assorted foreign decorations. He also went home with his facility for the flippant still intact. Once he landed his 6-26 onto an icy airstrip at Long Island's Mitchel Field, skidded the length of the runway, up an embankment, across a busy highway, through a steel fence, stopped at last on the polo field of the Meadowbrook Club, got out and asked: "Where are the horses?" He served for close to three years as commander of the Tactical...
Died. Charles Gulp Burlingham, 100, New York lawyer, civic reformer for half a century who urged pacemaking social legislation (childlabor, minimum-wage laws), headed a group of public-spirited New Yorkers (Fusionists) who successfully backed anti-Tammany Mayoralty Candidates John Purroy Mitchel (1913) and Fiorello La Guardia (1933), though a Democrat crossed party lines to support Tom Dewey for New York attorney general, denounce F.D.R.'s 1937 Supreme Court-packing bill, promoted the careers of some of the leading jurists of his time (Benjamin Cardozo. Learned Hand) in an unflagging effort to improve the quality of the courts, maintained...
...particularly object to chrome and wild colors," says Alexander P. Gest Jr., president of the small Mitchel Oil Corp. in Mamaroneck, N.Y. "But the thing I can't stand is that you can't tell the present-day cars apart. They all look alike. I honestly can't tell a Plymouth from a Cadillac when they go by fast...
...volunteer infantrymen from Ohio penetrated nearly 200 miles behind the Confederate lines in Tennessee, seized a railway train outside Marietta, Ga. and raced north intending to destroy track and railway bridges as they fled. Their object: to prevent Southern reinforcements from being sent from Atlanta while Union General Mitchel made a surprise attack on Chattanooga...