Word: conn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state prison at Wethersfield, Conn., is better than most. It is strikingly clean and kept in good repair by the inmates. Each cell has individual toilet facilities and a catalogue of the prison library of 5,000 volumes. There is also a baseball field, a brass band, a monthly newspaper of which Sheriff Simeon Pease is inordinately proud. Last week, two newspapermen took up residence behind Wethersfield walls, were forthwith made editors of the prison paper. Their flamboyant history led the inmates to anticipate a paper that would be edited with imagination, gusto, craftiness...
...Latin, for which he had great love. He had some money and soon founded a school at Pelham Manor, N. Y., to give boys a thorough foundation in the classics. Three years later, in 1893, he moved the school to an old hotel on a hill in Watertown, Conn...
Heeney-Delaney. Flashy Jack Delaney wears a bathrobe made of violet velvet. He is an open classic boxer, a French Canadian, a former world's light-heavyweight champion. He lives in Bridgeport, Conn. Last week in Manhattan he threw his fast left upper cut again and again onto the chin of Thomas Heeney of New Zealand. Heeney shook off the jabs, bored in. Jack Delaney danced and backed up, ducked, countered, danced and backed up. He couldn't get his right past Heeney's high left shoulder. Often he clinched. Heeney got the decision, Delaney the applause...
...elected are: Dean Ewing Christy of New Windsor, Illinois, and Merl Langdon McHenry of Oakland, Call, from the midyear graduating class of 1929. Kenyon Law Starting of Far go, N. D. James Henry Heals Bogman of Washington. D. C. Yonto Aral of Riverside, Conn., and William Edward Boardman of Schenectady, N. Y., from the June graduating class...
...Haven, Conn., February 27, 1928,--Marvin Allen Stevens, a backfield player on the championship football team of 1923, was appointed head coach of Yale football teams for a period of three years, according to a statement issued last night by the Yale University Athletic Association...