Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Connecticut: Bernard W. Trafford, Jr. '29; Aetna Life Ins. Co., 151 Farmington Ave., Hartford...
Honored by the Williamsburg Settlement of Brooklyn with a gold medal for "her great efforts to transpose the ideals of social justice into realities": Eleanor Roosevelt. Principal speaker at a gathering of 1,200 people to pay her honor: Playwright Clare Boothe Luce, former Republican Representative from Connecticut, who called Mrs. Roosevelt "the best-loved woman in the world today." Said Mrs. Luce: "Mrs. Roosevelt has done more good deeds on a bigger scale for a longer time than any woman who ever appeared on the public scene. No woman has ever so comforted the distressed-or so distressed...
Pickett succeeds Forrest R. (Butch) Jordan, who went to the University of Connecticut with Art Valpey as line coach. Under Jordan, the Crimson won four matches and dropped three last season, tieing Virginia and Temple for 16th place in the eastern intercollegiates...
...Derby, Connecticut, Yale's 150-pound crew beat the Crimson and Princeton to win the Goldthwaite Cup, the Big Three's lightweight crew's championship. The Elis also won the J.V. and freshman races, all of which were rowed over the Henley distance as was the varsity contest. Harvard placed third in the varsity race and second in the other...
...last year's 16 qualifiers will be back, including Dick Kinchla of Boston College, individual champion in 1947 and 1949. Other returning qualifiers include two more Boston College men, and players from Boston University, University of Connecticut, and the University of New Hampshire. No varsity golfer lasted through the first round last year...