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...happen to know about this incident because I heard the details firsthand from my aunt, Mrs. H. Allari, who was Harry Bridges' neighbor for several years. She lived at No. 2840 Pine Street, San Francisco, on the left side of the "five-room flat to a five-room house" from which the Bridges are moving next week...
After two weeks of swapping, cooking, costuming, supping from boxes, and tying knots, Girl Scout delegates will pack up, board busses for Plymouth, Mass., where they will visit Camp Pine Tree as guests of Mrs. James J. Storrow before returning to their respective States and nations...
Suddenly, just after the big transport had drummed some 25 ft. above the highway at the south end of the field, there were three rending crashes, whop! when the ship slammed full-tilt into a foot-thick pine power pole, crack! when the motors ripped out and thudded to earth, and smash! when the rest of the stricken plane bashed into a palmetto thicket. There was a spurt of flame from one motor, then silence...
...bowed and waddled through Congressional corridors for 63 years, came the finest gift of all: his $130 monthly salary as long as he lives, plus a tribute from the House of Representatives in fine oratorical style. Harry Parker, gleaming in the gallery, sporting a necktie as yellow as the pine-apple-orangeades he serves, heard himself declared faithful . . . loyal . . . cheery . . . diligent . . . courteous...
...afternoon there was a Sea Scout regatta, one evening a fireworks display. But more fascinating than spectacles, drills or speeches by oldsters about Scout ideals was the extracurricular activity in which all 25,000 assiduously engaged-swapping. To Washington they had brought a strange assortment of impedimenta: wampum, pine cones, stuffed birds, sharks teeth, shells, sponges, live hoot owls, pickled scorpions. Texans (dressed in chaps) brought a large consignment of live horned toads. West Virginians brought hunks of coal shellacked for paperweights. Californians brought 20-ft. strips of movie film. With these trade goods, the young merchants wandered around...