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...little ballplayers from Monterrey, Mexico were just about worn out. They had beaten their way across country for a month, had played and won eleven games from Texas to Kentucky. Now they faced the Little League World Series, and they were scheduled to start against some sturdy youngsters from Bridgeport, Conn, at 2:30 p.m. Coach César Faz studied his skinny, undersized squad (averaging 4 ft. 11 in., 92 lbs.), saw all the signs of fatigue and made a reasonable request. "That's when my boys usually take a siesta," he said. "Can't they play...
...Bridgeport, Conn...
Whole communities are getting into the act. In Bridgeport, Conn. 311 industrial plants are cooperating in studying present and future personnel needs, while at Waterville, Me., a town survey turned up worker shortages in 47 classifications, led to 600 adults enrolling in job-training courses conducted by Colby College and local schools...
...often by the singers themselves that they were nearly worn out by the time Mapleson gave up recording (in 1903) and stored them away. The dust-covered cylinders were unearthed in 1937, shortly before Mapleson's death, by a diligent phonographic antiquarian named William H. Seltsam, of Bridgeport, Conn., and some were transferred to 78-r.p.m. disks. These, plus several other Mapleson cylinders never before released, are on a new LP put out by the International Record Collectors' Club, of which Seltsam is founder and president...
Connecticut heralded the first rumble of an Eisenhower landslide even more decisively than in 1952. In labor-heavy Bridgeport, traditionally Democratic and barely Ike's in 1952, it was Eisenhower by nearly two to one. Well-unionized New Haven chimed in minutes later with a 17,000-vote plurality for Eisenhower, the first time in history New Haven had chosen a G.O.P. presidential nominee...