Word: bridgeport
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...inside a bar on this fall Sunday afternoon, it is dark and warm and crowded with men. The bar is thick with the sound of gruff voices and the smoke of Top Stone cigars and the odors of stale beer and newsprint from the sports sections of the Bridgeport Post-Telegram, the Boston Globe, the Hartford Courant, the New York Times, the New York Post and the New York Daily News, all of which are strewn about the small room. There is a darkened pool table in the corner. A silent, unblinking pinball machine. A deck of cards scattered across...
...course of empire takes its way" was borne out again last week by a Commerce Department analysis of urban demographic trends. The department forecast that by the year 2000, Los Angeles will surpass New York as the nation's largest metropolitan area, and that San Francisco will overtake Bridgeport, Conn., as the country's wealthiest. Los Angeles, which by 1982 had swept past Chicago to gain Second City status, is expected to swell to 8,870,000 regional residents. The San Francisco area will drop from 27th to 28th in population, with 1,634,000, but will enjoy the highest...
...refugee ship in 1975, tried working for a private ambulance service rescue squad in Florida but did not take to it. Then he learned of a medical retraining program in Nebraska and secured an interest-free loan to enter it in return for pledging to practice in rural Bridgeport (pop. 1,668) whose only two physicians were nearing retirement. Says Banker Eldon Evers, who negotiated the deal: "Everything has worked to the letter." Now married to an American nurse, Nguyen has lived in Bridgeport for eight years and happily calls it home. "I never knew anything about Nebraska until...
...Lynnfield, Mass. 78 Jeff Budoff MG Woodbury, Conn. 79 Bernie Guekguezian DT Fresno, Calif. 80 Mike Hart SE Palos Verdes, Calif. 82 Bill McGagh TE Cresskill, N.J. 83 Peter Mackie DT Wellesley, Mass. 84 Bob Hoog TE Cambridge, Mass. 84 Paul Wiesen DT Sharpaville, Pa. 85 Ed Boyle TE Bridgeport, Conn. 85 Ken Tarczy CB Mercer, Pa. 86 Mitch Newton SE West Terre Haute, Ind. 87 Jim Morris TE Melrose, Mass. 88 Steve Abbott TE Orono, Maine 89 Pete Miclach DE Scotch Plains, N.J. 90 John Lowenstein SE Arlington, Mass. 91 Bill Ross DE New Smyrna, Fla. 92 Mike Bunar...
...doubted I could be a terrific lawyer or a doctor, but I realized I could make a lot of money." Hirsch's father ran the New York buying office of a family-owned department-store chain. The younger Hirsch spent two years studying business at the University of Bridgeport but then dropped out. While living in a fourth-floor walk-up on Manhattan's Lower West Side, he attended more business classes at Pace University and started hanging out around stock-brokerage offices. It was there that he had the idea for speedily transmitting financial data to individual...