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Then Billy Booe, a Bridgeport, Conn. businessman (corsets and brassieres) who made a name for himself (1946-48) kicking field goals and points after touchdown in the Yale Bowl, pushed with surprising persistence into the semifinals. Booe himself had not expected to last so long. "I didn't bring enough clothes with me," he complained. "I expected to be on my way home Tuesday...
...Haven express, 20 minutes late out of New York and bound for Boston, roared into a sharp curve near Bridgeport at high speed and jumped the tracks, killing the engineer and injuring 24 people. Luckily, the conductor had just moved passengers out of the first five coaches, otherwise the toll might have been disastrous. Service on the New Haven's main line was snarled for five days while commuters rode to work by bus or detouring trains running up to an hour late. At week's end Massachusetts State Representative James L. O'Dea Jr. demanded...
Sailboats drifted through an almost windless race off the Connecticut shore. Hurricane III was passing lobster pots now and narrow, leaning oyster-bed stakes, so the skipper could get a reading on the current. It was not up to pre-race calculations. Off Point No. Point, southeast of Bridgeport, he reduced r.p.m. again. Behind him, half a dozen skippers thought twice as they held to course and speed...
...stimulating that Bridgeport, Conn, police last week banned teen-age rock-'n'-roll dance parties because the dancers "got out of hand." *Named, respectively, in honor of Cinemac tress Audrey Hepburn, af whose mere mention Saxophonist Desmond swoons, and Photogra pher Gjon Mili, who made a movie about the Brubeck Quartet. The title "Brubeck Time" commemorates TIME'S cove story...
Last week the old-line companies were busy changing their ways to meet the new challenge. James Lees, which once sold as much as $71 million worth of wool carpets annually, has stopped all wool-yarn production at its Bridgeport, Pa. plant, because of "heavy inroads" by newer yarns and processes. It will spend $2,300,000 retooling to produce more modern rugs. A second big company, Alexander Smith Inc., has shut down its Yonkers, N.Y. woven carpet mill entirely, is moving to four newer mills (TIME, July 5), and is planning to buy a fifth to make new cotton...