New York figures Foster Hall of Fame honor
New York University announces Stephen Collins Foster election to its campus Hall of Fame, lauding his songs as enduring folk classics. The piece contrasts his life of hardship with lasting cultural impact, noting works like Old Kentucky Home and Old Folks at Home.
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New York University
Stephen Collins Foster
Foster
Andrew Fletcher
Saltoun
United States
Iris
Pittsburgh
South
Kentucky
Suwanee River
Dorothy Stickney Rise From Adversity To Broadway Star
The tale follows Dorothy Stickney born in Dickinson North Dakota who lost her sight as a child then pursued acting after medical schooling and teaching fell away. She faced early setbacks, found work in theater, endured firings and illness, and eventually starred on Broadway in Life With Father and other works. Her story urges making a second choice when first options fail.
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Teddy Roosevelt
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Buffalo Wallows
Dorothy
Dickinson
Northwestern Dramatic School
Minneapolis
New York
Otto Kruger
Mother
Dorothy Stickney
Mara Surrenders Spy Ties Stir World War II Tale
Sir John Sanderson, head of British intelligence, learns Mara betrays secrets to Ajax, Nazi spy chief. A parachutist vanished in a girl’s car near London as Brinda Duncan probes Mara’s fate and joins the spy gallery to identify a German in disguise. Sir John faces resignation and peril while Omged by war fears.
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Mara
Ajax
England
Hugh Kenley
London
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Brinda Duncan
Hunt
Kenley
Donovan
Brinda
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Secret Service
Brinda and Malden Reconnect Under Wartime Suspense
In Sir John’s study Brinda Duncan and Lieuten ant-Commander Richard Malden reunite after years apart as he reveals a bomb discovered in his Camberwell laboratory. Their conversation blends past romance with present danger as Brinda guides him toward the spy gallery to identify suspects.
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Watford
London
Richard Malden
Royal Navy
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Malden
Camberwell
Scotland Yard
Sir John
Brinda Duncan
Eton Hall
America
Navy
Dick Malden
Ford Beacons Paved Air Travel Safety and Navigation
The Ford Motor Company pioneered radio beacon beaming for aviation from 1924 to 1933. Ford engineers developed the marker beacon to guide pilots to fields, mixing two signals N and A to form a T. The patent covered beacon station location indicators and two perpendicular sending loops. Royalty is not charged to beacon manufacturers.
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Ford Motor Company
Ford
Dearborn
Chicago
United States Army Air Service
Ford Engineers
The
Air Service
McCook Field
Dayton
Bureau of Standards
College Park
Maryland
Bellefonte
Pennsylvania
U.S
RADIUM DISCOVERY PUZZLE WITH CLUES AND ANSWER TO PREVIOUS
A daily word puzzle lists horizontal and vertical clues on radium discovery and multiple terms. It includes names and terms like woman co discoverer, mountain pass, and public auto, plus various abbreviations and descriptors to solve across and down. The puzzle references an answer to a prior puzzle.
What It Means reads like a stick of bombs in Berlin
The piece explains the term stick as a British military expression for a batch of bombs dropped from a plane, with details on release mechanisms and historical origins. It notes American unfamiliarity with the term and quotes Tom Corcoran about retirement and a shifting world balance with unity touted in politics.
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United States Air Force
Canada
South America
Tom Corcoran
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