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...lost," says Douglas ("Wrong Way") Corrigan of the 1938 navigational blooper that earned him a place in aviation history. Leading a parade last week in Hempstead, N.Y., to mark the 50th anniversary of the nearby Cradle of Aviation Museum, the chipper Corrigan, now 80, accepted an altimeter symbolizing his famous flight. The young airplane mechanic took off from Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, heading for California in his rickety Curtiss monoplane. With nothing guiding him save his taste for adventure and his temperamental compass, Corrigan landed some 28 hours later in what he thought was Los Angeles...
...trade. Stan plays alto sax, clarinet and flute. For a few weeks in 1939, he actually played with the Glenn Miller. And before his education was done, he had also played with Jack Teagarden and Maynard Ferguson. Then for 38 years he was a dentist and anesthesiologist in Hempstead, on Long Island. He produced two books, Amnesia-Analgesia, Techniques in Dentistry, and Pain and Anxiety Control in Dentistry, neither of which is as much fun as, say, Stomping at the Savoy...
...Newscaster BARBARA WALTERS at Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y.: "This is not only the day when you are most confident, it is also the day when you are most vulnerable. Look at me. I sound like someone who really knew what she wanted and got it. Baloney. When I was graduating from college, I hadn't a clue. You don't have to know now, and you probably shouldn't know exactly now. The next time somebody says, 'And what are you going to do?' try saying, 'I don't know yet.' What a relief. You may not even want...
Ellison is replacing Lecturer on English John L. Klause, who is accepting a position as Associate Professor at Hofstra University in Hempstead...
...double-header debacle started December 22 at Hempstead, N.Y., against previously witness Hofstra...