Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Revolution in Connecticut. Moving to New Canaan, Conn, in 1946, Noyes built himself a flat-roofed modern house, convinced a neighbor that he ought to have one too. Soon, modern houses were sprouting like dandelions in New Canaan, and Architect Noyes built a dozen of the handsomest-gay, roomy homes with lots of glass, flat, sweeping lines, and without the stark, cold look that makes many modern homes so forbidding. Prices: $15,000 to $150,000. Noyes likes to plan a whole house down to built-in furniture and faucets, does not believe in drawing a line between the architect...
Noyes is currently busy building a modern $600,000 school in Connecticut and designing typewriters and time clocks for I.B.M., but the new bubble house is what excites him most. He sees a dozen uses for it: summer cottages, motels, gas stations, roadside shops, garages, big housing developments. Florida's Kobe Sound Corp. will build a pair of Noyes-style bubbles to show tourists this fall. Noyes is also working on a $60,000 luxury model-a cluster of three bubbles, 45 ft. in diameter, with immense windows and five bedrooms. He admits it will take time...
Other participating teams are Amherst, Brown, Colby, University of Connecticut, Springfield, and Dartmouth. The varsity beat the Big Green here last season, but lost the return match. It toppled Brown here also, with a late surge. UConn always has a strong team; last season it was one of the best in the East...
Pusey graduated from the College in 1928, and later taught Classics here. He has also taught at Scripps College in California, and at Wesleyan University in Connecticut...
...brothers all attended Connecticut's Hotchkiss School, and in summer, worked in the Rouge or other plants getting their hands greasy. They kept up this apprenticeship during college. None was an outstanding scholar. Henry quit Yale in his senior year ('40) with insufficient credits to graduate, and Benson, a sophomore, quit Princeton the same year. Only Billy (Yale '50) graduated...