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...onetime landmark in Bridgeport, Conn, was marked for demolition by a real-estate developer: the full-size house with doll-size furnishings built in 1863 for the 31-in.-high circus midget Tom Thumb, who gained world fame and fortune with Circus Tycoon P. T. Barnum...
...hungry enough he will eat anything in sight, but in times of plenty the choice between foods is often made on the basis of their emotional values, Dr. William Kaufman told psychologists at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meetings in St. Louis last week. A Bridgeport (Conn.) general practitioner, Dr. Kaufman has classified some special food compulsions he found in 1,200 of his own patients. Among the Kaufman classifications...
Even the expected was coming unexpectedly fast. The Hartford Courant declared at 7:40 p.m. that Ike had swept Connecticut. Eisenhower carried Bridgeport (pop. 159,000) by three votes-the first time since 1924 that a Republican candidate had carried this industrial city. At 8 o'clock. Republican National Chairman Arthur Summerfield looked at the results, said it might be a landslide for Ike. Less than 5% of the total vote was in by then, but almost every indicator was beginning to point...
Guided Missile. In Bridgeport, Conn., Walter Bennett, suing for divorce, testified that when he remonstrated with his wife for keeping animals on their living-room sofa, she hit him in the face with their...
Auto-Neurosis. In Bridgeport, Conn., charged with setting eight cars on fire, George Brandt told police: "I couldn't afford to own an automobile . . . and I didn't want anyone else to have...