Word: conn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from a series of articles by columnist Dorothy Thompson to the effect that if the bill passed "one man, once elected President, can rule this country with a camarilla'' to a scheduled town meeting at which the suburban citizenry of the stanchly Republican stronghold of New Canaan, Conn, proposed to record their opposition to the bill this week...
...repercussions of Austria's Nazification last week continued to widen through the world. Opportunistic Hollywood threw its hat into the ring as a prospective "American Salzburg." And 200 embattled citizens of arty Westport, Conn, nearly shattered the rafters of their Town Hall with furious protests against the plan to make Westport a "Salzburg on the Saugatuck" (TIME, March 28). Following the meeting, Westport's Board of Zoning Appeals refused to grant Millionaire Patrick A. Powers a permit to continue construction on his $100,000 "Dream Stadium...
...that honor promptly came last week from Westport, Conn., an arty village lying on the sluggish River Saugatuck where it empties into Long Island sound. There Author Hendrik van Loon's Connecticut Society of Friends of Music announced plans for an initial summer season of six concerts scheduled for this summer. While this six-performance schedule would still leave Westport trailing in competition with such established U. S. summer festivals as the Berkshire, Hollywood Bowl, St. Louis Municipal Opera, and Manhattan Lewisohn Stadium, such Westporters as van Loon, Grace Moore and Lawrence Tibbett hope for glamorous future expansion...
Died. Floyd Orlin Hale, 55, president of Illinois Bell Telephone Co.; after long illness; in Hartford, Conn. A Dartmouth alumnus (1903), he was stricken with a heart attack at New Haven last fall in the closing minutes of the Yale-Dartmouth football game when Yale came from behind to tie the score (TIME, Nov. 8), never recovered...
...shown wound up with less outspoken intellectuals. In his desire to see the U. S. at firsthand Critic Wilson once bought a motorcycle, gave it up after he had run into a ditch and been arrested because he had neglected to buy a license. Now living in Stamford, Conn., where he is writing a long history of socialism, Edmund Wilson last month married pretty, Seattle-born Mary McCarthy. Two years ago in the Nation Mary McCarthy summed up much younger-generation opinion when she described Edmund Wilson as the best of American critics...