Word: conn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Florence Busch Bull, 58. widow of Dr. William Tillinghast ("Billy") Bull, (famed oldtime Yale dropkicker and scrub-team coach), aunt of the late Editor Briton Haddon of TIME; in New Haven, Conn...
Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.) Frank Billings Kellogg D.C.L. Alanson Bigelow Houghton LL.D. Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to U. S LL.D. George Payne McLean, onetime (1911-29) U. S. Senator from Connecticut LL.D. Andrew William Mellon LL.D...
Flying with a mechanic and a passenger between Hartford and Willimantic, Conn, last week, Lieutenant Carl Dixon, Connecticut National Guard pilot, discovered a wheel loose and a strut broken on his landing gear. To land meant wreckage. What to do? He climbed to two thousand feet, gave the controls to the mechanic, who knew but little of piloting, broke a hole in the fuselage bottom, crawled through head first. Hanging by his feet he ingeniously used his belt, a piece of rope and a shoelace to lash the broken gear together. The repair sufficed to let him land safely...
...London, Conn., on the yacht-crowded Thames, Harvard and Yale had their annual race for two. As it had seemed she would, Yale won. Rowing a slow 30 strokes per minute, crossing the finish line six lengths ahead of Harvard, the men with blue tips on their oars did not pause to shake hands and take the Harvard men's shirts away from them, as is the custom, but kept rowing right on upstream and across to their boathouse and training quarters at Gales Ferry. When the Harvard oarsmen finally crossed the line they collapsed freely...
Married. Charles Tiffany Bingham, of New Haven, Conn., fourth son of U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham, to Miss Kathleen Wattson Howell, socially registered Manhattanite; in Manhattan...