Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close of a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing on the U.S. ammunition shortage (TIME, April 13 et seq.), Virginia's Harry Byrd clipped such excerpts of testimony and mailed them off to General Douglas MacArthur in Connecticut for comment. Last week, like a thunderclap from Olympus, came Mac-Arthur's reply...
...short story field just about where Charles Addams' work ranks in the realm of cartoons. The main difference between Salinger and Addams, however, is that it's difficult to laugh off Salinger's stories. The characters are all people we might know, not ghouls. "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" shows a malformed little girl wandering about in dreams of terrible unreality while her mother and a friend get drunker and drunker in the next room. And "The Laughing Man," in the form of a childhood reminiscence, deftly reveals the impact of a scoutmaster's love affair on the stories he tells...
...went along, Gallaudet did teach Alice, and her physician father was so grateful that he decided Gallaudet should teach other Alices too. Though the deaf in those days were considered all but hopeless, Dr. Cogswell managed to scrape together about $2,000 from friends, even persuaded the Connecticut legislature to make the first state appropriation in the country for a humane institution. By 1817, he and Gallaudet had enough to open a school-the first school for the deaf...
Sign for Light. Last week, near the original site of the school, a few miles from its present one, 400 Connecticut citizens gathered for a special ceremony. There was a speech by Lieut. Governor Allen and a letter from President Eisenhower, and each was translated into sign language for the deaf in the audience. Finally, six-year-old Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet III marched up to help unveil a symbolic statue of a girl supported by a pair of stone hands making the sign for "light." The ceremony was in honor of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and the co-founders...
Died. Schuyler Merritt, 99, industrialist, nine-term (until 1936) Republican Congressman from Connecticut, and oldest Yale graduate (class of 1873); in Stamford, Conn. He campaigned for an express highway cutting through heavily traveled Connecticut, finally got a 37-mile, $21 million, landscaped toll road which opened in 1938 as the Merritt Parkway...