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...Brown 7-4-1 2. Vermont 11-2-1 3. Rhode Island 7-3-1 4. Boston University 9-5-2 5. UMass 7-4-0 6. Dartmouth 6-4-1 7. HARVARD 4-4-4 8. UConn 8-8-1 9. Yale 7-5-0 10. Bridgeport...
Capp, who grew up Dogpatch poor in New Haven and Bridgeport, Conn., originated Li'I Abner in 1934. It was the first humorous strip to attempt serious political satire and was an almost instant success, appearing in roughly 900 newspapers by the late 1960s. At his peak, Capp earned more than $500,000 a year from the strip and its numerous spinoffs, including a Broadway musical and two movies...
...technical. But how much can you root for this show? It's just not enough fun or makeshift enough to put you on the side of the creators. On a professional scale--you can forget about bombing in New Haven--this show would be lucky to limp out of Bridgeport without a lynching. It's a conceit, and that's all right, but whose conceit is it? The question of what constituency the Pudding and its scripts represent seems to have come late in Cardinal Knowledge when an innocent cast member dared to drop a line that even Mary Louise...
Mayor Daley: Actually, I was always trying to be worthy of Chicago. I lived all my life in the same neighborhood-Bridgeport. I never wanted to live anywhere else. I wanted to make life better for my neighbors, and their neighbors. To build a city we could all be proud...
Daley's true passion was Chicago. Son of a sheet-metal worker and labor organizer, Daley grew up in the blue-collar section of Bridgeport near the stockyards. Physically and mentally, he never strayed far. When he left his family's house, he moved only a few doors away, where he and Eleanor raised their seven children. Daley was a familiar figure at weddings, wakes and graduations. The Rev. John Lydon, the pastor of Daley's Roman Catholic parish, noted last week: "When he said, 'How are you?' he really wanted to know...