Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet little party, given for 48 guests by Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon at Washington's swank 1925 F Street Club, and Harry Truman was in relaxed good humor. After dinner, he sat down on a big davenport and fell into conversation with Political Columnist Arthur Krock, head of the New York Times's Washington bureau and one of the capital's most indefatigable diners-out. Truman talked easily and candidly, rambling over a wide range of subjects. What he said was wonderful, Krock told the President, and could he print it? Truman said sure...
...suppose that's why they have such things as dog psychologists. After all, a Keeshonden who keeps chasing around wherever there's a show can't lead the normal existence of a plain old household mutt. C. E. Harbison, of Noroton, Connecticut, is a dog psychologist. He was hanging around the Mechanics Building yesterday, and it turned out that he owns eight dogs, five of whom sleep in the same bedroom with the Harbisons. Mr. Harbison has trained this brigade so well that in 15 years only four places of food have been gobbled off the kitchen table...
...however, rule out the possibility that the killer might have been made mentally unbalanced by the signs of such suffering. Five hours later, the jury of nine women and three men-all of them parents-announced its verdict in the case of Connecticut v. Carol Paight, the tall, 21-year-old blonde who had fired a bullet into the head of her cancer-ridden father to save him from a lingering, painful death (TIME, Feb. 6). The verdict: not guilty. Carol, the jurors decided, was temporarily insane when she killed her father...
...small (pop. 5,000) Bellows Falls, Vt., bankers mulled over an exciting proposition. As usually happens when any portentous matter confronts the upper Connecticut River Valley, the bankers had called in Eugene Cray, 61, from North Walpole (pop. 1,500) on the New Hampshire side of the river...
With the heel mill done, Cray thought he might soon build a heel-covering mill or a purse factory on the same basis, was pondering his chances of bucking potent New England power companies by putting up an independent generating plant on the Connecticut River. In any case, his financing plan was a free-enterprising alternative to talk in New England of state or city development authorities to finance such projects. "No authority," says Cray, "could have built that heel plant for what it cost me. When something like this gets into politics, if it doesn't get corrupt...