Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...founding fathers of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford believed in American art-and the closer to Connecticut the better. Painting No. 1 in the first catalogue the Atheneum ever published was The Battle of Bunker's Hill by John Trumbull, and the catalogue took pains to point out that "Col. Trumbull, the artist, was on that day adjutant of the First Regiment of Connecticut troops stationed at Roxbury, and saw (the) action from that point." Last week, no years after its founding by Daniel Wadsworth, the Atheneum was proudly showing the public how its horizons have broadened...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). .4 Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court...
...first time in years, said a Connecticut warehouseman, "our salesmen are actually out on the road selling steel instead of just taking orders." The reason is that Connecticut Valley manufacturers are stocked up with enough steel to last them up to six months; even when the strike came, no rush for steel developed. Texas oilmen have no trouble finding all the pipe they want; Detroit's auto industry is so well stocked that steel sheets are selling at discounts, and expensive "conversion" steel (i.e., metal produced at one plant and converted into shapes at another) has disappeared...
Philip G. Pratt '53 of Windsor, Connecticut and Winthrop House will take on the duties of treasurer Dustin M. Burke '52, while Walter F. Greely '53 of Framingham and Winthrop House will replace Warren D. While as secretary...
...Walnut Street, Torrington, Connecticut...