Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening for pep talks. The meetings all followed the same pattern. Guests arrived about 8 o'clock, were greeted cordially by the President, got a highball, and were drawn into a few hours' discussion led by the President. Among the guests were such Administration stalwarts as Connecticut's McMahon and Minnesota's Humphrey, but there were also a few unpredictable Democrats ranging from Florida's freshman Senator Smathers on the right to New York's Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. on the left...
William Benton, U.S. Senator from Connecticut LL.D...
...from which the best fighters have always come. By the time of his divorce, Ray had already convinced George Gainford that he was a fiercely determined comer. He was well known and well traveled in the bootleg circuit (i.e., unlicensed fights held in small clubs) around New York and Connecticut. One day in 1936 "Smitty" borrowed the amateur fight card of a fighter named Ray Robinson for his first official fight, got stuck with the name. A year later, after watching the lanky kid in action, a sportwriter said to Gainford: "That's a sweet fighter you got there...
Yale follows a similar program; Bob Kunned takes his swimming team to a Massachusetts prep school for an exhibition meet, and Bob Hall brings Yale movies along when he drops in at Connecticut schoolboy team banquets.5A map of Yale and Princeton alumni activity would show a similar pattern with different centers of strength. ST. LOUIS and BALTIMORE, for instance, are considered "Princeton towns." Harvard, on the other hand, is far more active in securing the top applicants from MINNEAPOLIS and CLEVELAND, while Yale at present is attracting top students from SEATTLE and PORTLAND. Closer to home, Harvard alumni just last...
...knows more about his father's business than Buck Dumaine. He went to work for his father after graduating from Connecticut's Pomfret School in 1923. When Dumaine the Elder quietly took over a controlling interest in the New Haven in 1948 and then began chopping off 17 executive heads, Buck was right at his father's side. He became a director and member of the New Haven's executive committee, also sat on the boards of other companies where his father was active. Buck Dumaine intends to run the road the way his father...