Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this querulous doggerel, a disgruntled voter in the Hartford Courant last week recorded her opinion of the noisiest off-year campaign in Connecticut history. Benton & Bowles, formerly of the advertising firm of the same name, were Governor Chester Bowles and William Benton, whom he had appointed to the U.S. Senate. Chester Bowles, a man whose left of Truman policies inspire a little of the same devotion in his supporters and rage in his opponents that Franklin D. Roosevelt did, wanted to be governor for four more years. Benton, trying to keep his Senate seat (which he has held...
...since 1934 had the Democrats won an off-year election in Connecticut. Even in presidential 1948, Bowles had won election by a bare 2,200 votes, while Truman lost the state. Before the tide turned in Korea, Republicans had hoped to pick up one and possibly both Senate seats. Now nobody was making any predictions: it was that close...
...robes, headed by the mace-bearing chief marshal of Yale University, formed itself on the New Haven campus. The notables of the procession were mostly Yalemen, deans and professors, and Fellows of the Corporation (among them: Secretary of State Dean Acheson, '15, Senator Robert A. Taft, '10, Connecticut's Governor Chester Bowles, '24). Yale was doing what Yale had done only 15 times before in its 249-year history: inaugurating a president. Yale's 16th: slim, ginger-haired Historian Alfred Whitney Griswold, 43, member of Yale's class of '29, faculty member since...
...title whimsically bestowed by Drake's Connecticut sponsor to impress Titusville yokels with the importance of his work. Actually, the only uniform that Drake ever wore was as a conductor on the New York, New Haven Railroad...
They played the college circuit from a house party at Dartmouth to a performance in a baseball cage at a Spring Country Fair at Wesleyan in Middletown, Connecticut. Sandwiched in between were a number of Monday night sessions at the Savoy with bands led by Hall, trombonistsc Vic Dickenson, and pianist Joe Sullivan...