Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warmer weather in the last tow days has melted away the prospects for good skiing in New England this weekend. Only North Conway, New Hampshire, Charlemont, Massachusetts, and Mohawk Mountain, Connecticut, report fair or fair to good conditions...
...dark, dull afternoons of a Paris winter for its inception, and needed them also ... for its appreciation." Today, Calder is sufficiently appreciated to make a good living from his art. His sculptures may have a machine-age look, but they are done by handcraft methods, the products of a Connecticut Yankee ingenuity and an untrammeled mind...
...neatly painted South of Scranton won the coveted Carnegie International prize 16 years ago, critics clucked and the public pooh-poohed. This year the Carnegie jury went overboard for a yet stranger painting by Paris Abstractionist Jacques Villon (TIME, Oct. 30). The Pittsburgh public, meanwhile, has caught up with Connecticut's Blume. When the ballots were counted, the popular prize went to his entry, The Rock...
When the University of Connecticut chapter of the Phi Epsilon Pi Fraternity pledged Sophomore Alfred R. Rogers last fall, the grand council of the national organization promptly suspended it. The reason: Rogers is a Negro. Last week, at a special convention called for the purpose, delegates unanimously voted to reverse the decision. They not only approved of what Connecticut had done, but said that any of Phi Epsilon Pi's other 35 chapters might do the same, if they liked...
...Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, a Republican, called Herbert Hoover's proposal a "counsel of discouragement, despair and defeat." Democratic Senator Brien McMahon of Connecticut called it "the most monstrous act of appeasement ever suggested in this country...