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Standing 6 ft. 4 in., weighing 270 Ibs., Melchior was oversize in every way. Soprano Marjorie Lawrence tells of the time when she and Melchior both lived at New York's Ansonia Hotel and she saw him wearing his bathrobe in the corridor. One of the hotel staff explained that "there was no bathtub in the hotel that could hold him, so Lauritz was on his way to the roof-where there was a swimming pool." His talent was just as massive...
Like many of his own students, Sam Gould represents the first generation of his family to seek and get a college degree. He grew up in Connecticut's Housatonic valley, where his Lithuanian-born father was a wholesaler of paper, twine and groceries in the small towns of Ansonia and Shelton. It was not a wealthy family, and Sam worked at odd jobs to save money for college-only to discover that his father, in hopes of doubling the investment, had lost it all on a stock-market fling...
...often phenomenal. Beginning his New England campaign in Bridgeport Sunday morning at 12:30 a.m., he was met at the airport by several thousand people who had waited in the rain more than two hours for his arrival. As he motorcaded through the small towns of Shelton, Derby, and Ansonia he stopped to give speeches...
Ordained in 1927, Fenton continued to develop his kicking techniques. In 1934 he started to pass on his knowledge to boys of his parish in Ansonia, Conn, and later in Mamaroneck, N.Y. As his fame spread, he was taken on as kicking consultant by colleges from Harvard to North Carolina. His most famous pupil: North Carolina's All-American Charlie Justice, one of the game's finest quick-kickers...
...Thomas of Racine, trucked away 34 pieces of Kohler plumbing worth $3,500. In some areas even state and municipal governments have hopped on the boycott bandwagon. The Massachusetts Legislature and Boston's City Council condemned purchases from Kohler. So have the councils of Bridgeport, Waterbury, and Ansonia, Conn., and Lincoln Park, Mich...