Word: conn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...July 2 on p. 25, you have unintentionally confused the internationally known evangelist "Gypsy" Smith who, as you say, "for 50 years has preached and sung God all over the world," with a much younger man, Captain "Gypsy Pat" Smith, who was divorced by his wife in Bridgeport, Conn. This younger man of Gypsy origin after the War became an itinerant preacher, and, to the regret of "Gypsy" Smith, took that word as part of his public name. There is no kinship whatever between the two men. It is bad enough that his unhappy marital affairs should bring into disrepute...
...letter from John H. Hammond Jr., Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, Conn., was published in your paper. In your subsequent editions of May 21 and June 4 you have referred to it as John H. Hammond Jr. and consequently this has been attributed by some to John Hays Hammond Jr., the well known inventor and scientist at Gloucester, Mass...
Greenwich, Conn...
Married. Woodbridge Bingham, son of U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, descendent of three colonial Governors; and Ursula Wolcott Griswold, of Manhattan; in Old Lyme, Conn...
Divorced. Rodney ("Gypsy") Smith, famed evangelist; by Karin Tjader Smith; in Bridgeport, Conn. She charged "intolerable" cruelty after having been persuaded to withdraw worse charges. Born in a gypsy camp in Scotland, Rodney Smith found God in the Salvation Army, in London, when he was 17. Since then, for 50 years, he has preached and sung God all over the world...