Word: conn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pomfret, Conn...
...virtually ignored Nat's problems. He and his parents were unaware of how little he was learning until a college counselor told his father: "Your son is hopeless." Furious at the summary judgment, Nat's father enrolled him in the Forman School in Litchfield, Conn., a private institution founded in 1930 that specializes in teaching dyslectics. This fall Gove begins his freshman year at West Virginia Wesleyan College. Says he: "I didn't know what my potentials were, and now I know. I've come far. It shows on the charts, but I feel it inside...
DIED. Ernie Bushmiller, 76, cartoonist who for half a century turned out his daily comic strip Nancy, now syndicated in more than 600 newspapers; of a heart attack; in Stamford, Conn. He turned to cartoons featuring the simply drawn, beady-eyed Nancy, Sluggo and Aunt Fritzi after concluding that he had less talent than his fellow art students...
DIED. Carl Braestrup, 85, physicist who sounded early alarms about radiation's dangers and co-invented the Theratron, a cobalt-therapy machine patented in 1953 and still used to treat cancer; of complications from a stroke; in Middletown, Conn...
...Shakespearean role after 46 years of acting, Anne Baxter, 59 (The Razor's Edge, All About Eve), managed in one falling swoop to live up to two of the stage's hoariest bywords: "Break a leg" and "The show must go on." At the opening of Stratford, Conn.'s American Shakespeare Theater production of Hamlet, Baxter, playing Queen Gertrude to Christopher Walken's Hamlet, was maneuvering herself and her 20-lb. dress down a darkened backstage staircase when she tumbled, breaking her foot and spraining her ankle. Baxter then made it through the second half...