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...Navy blimps still in service-on shore patrol and early-warning defense missions-will be deflated and folded away; within another few months, the last of the Navy's "bloopy bags" will disappear from the skies. And so will end an often disastrous, but sometimes glorious saga of the nation's military history...
...that saga goes back to 1793, when a debonair Frenchman named Jean Pierre Blanchard ascended from the yard of Philadelphia's Walnut Street prison in a balloon, accompanied by a small, whimpering dog. While President George Washington and hundreds of Philadelphians craned their necks in amazement, Blanchard panicked a squadron of pigeons and drifted nonchalantly out of sight. After 46 minutes in the air, he plopped down in a woodland 15 miles away and placated the scared natives with wine...
...drama desk of the New York Times, reported with asperity. "I can testify," said Woollcott. '"that he was always careful to treat me like dirt." Folding Tens. In his plays he could be fey and even sentimental, as in Yon Can't Take It With Yon, the saga of the lovably eccentric Vanderhofs, and he could turn out straight living-room drama, as in Dinner at Eight (with Edna Ferber...
ORPHEUM: Gone With the Wind is back; and Clark Gable's and Vivien Leigh's mighty saga of the Ole South is now to be seen at popular prices. A Civil War Centennial-Scarlett O'Hara extravaganza spectacular. Evenings...
ORPHEUM: GONE WITH THE WIND is back; and Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh's mighty saga of the Ole South is to be seen at popular prices. A Civil War Centennial spectacular. Evenings...