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...ALGER M. DRESEL Commander U. S. Navy U. S. S. Macon Detail Akron, Ohio...
...group mounted a bunting-draped platform beneath the airship's bow, just forward of the control car. The band changed to "Anchors Aweigh." There were speeches. On behalf of his city Mayor Toole presented to Commander Alger Herman Dresel a silver service for the ship's wardroom.* Someone handed Mrs. Moffett a red-white-&-blue cord suspended from the airship. Declaiming "I christen thee Macon!", she yanked the cord. Two hatches in the underside of the Macon's snout flopped open, spilling out 48 alarmed pigeons which flapped excitedly about the dock. Thirty-four of the birds...
Since then Tibbett has behaved as modestly as any good Alger hero. He has a new wife, the former Mrs. Jennie Marston Burgard,-a home in Hollywood's fashionable Beverly Hills, a Lincoln car which he drives like mad. But Tibbett has cultivated no lofty conceits, no temperamental whimsies. He refused the private dining room which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave him in Hollywood. He still thinks, and says, that singing is "just about the best fun that the human animal can have." He will still burst into song on the street or in restaurants...
...with ghostly portrait galleries, musty, deserted wings where mysterious manuscripts telling of some "awful" murder or horrible deed were discovered. The heroine is beautiful, but elusive. "Her mind is . . . like a jewel contained in a most beautiful casket." The hero is a brunette; and like the protagonists in Horatio Alger stories, he begins a peasant boy, to rise to great heights. The villain has the miraculous ability of always appearing suddenly at the crucial moment to torment his victims. And there is ever present mysterious music and the clanking of armor...
Herant J. Adzigian of Stoneham, Richard E. Alger of Middleboro, Frank A. Bautze of Jamaica Plain, Lawrence W. Boal of Waltham, Robert L. Bentley, 2nd of Arlington, Stephen A. Bixby of Boxford, Stanley J. Bogunieki of Westfield, Mansfield Branigan of Groton, Charles N. Breed, Jr. of Swampscott, Thomas J. Cavanagh, Jr. of Cambridge, Manley B. Cohen of Cambridge, Joseph S. Cotton of Turner's Falls, David C. Crawford of Watertown, John V. Curran of Cambridge, John D. Dorr of Bridgewater, Richard G. Dorr of Lancaster, Douglas P. Dryer of Waban, John F. Ducey, Jr. of Boston, Arthur F. Duffey...