Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...journalist was all that big, slow-talking, prematurely grey Jim McConaughy ever wanted to be. Son of James Lukens McConaughy, president of Wesleyan University and Connecticut's Republican Governor from 1946 to 1948, Jim got a job with the Hartford Times while still at Wesleyan, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. In 1938 he came to TIME and asked for a job. The only place open at the time was as a copy boy; he took it. Later he went to Chicago as a correspondent, returned to New York as a writer. In 1944 he traveled to Parris Island...
...Connecticut. Democrats meeting in Hartford to choose a senatorial candidate bypassed the eager politicking of ex-Governor Chester Bowles and ex-Senator William Benton, onetime Manhattan advertising partners, instead picked former Congressman Thomas J. Dodd, 51, hardworking, seasoned politico, who will run against Republican Incumbent William A. Purtell...
...securities-real estate empire estimated at $25 million even while staying "in hock to my eyeballs." Among other interests, he controlled the U.S. Leather Co. (which he liquidated in 1952), held the principal interest in Western Union (which he sold out in 1952). He owned a 47-acre Connecticut estate at Fairfield, a house with a dining room imported from the 18th century London home of David Garrick, 6,500 acres of Maine farm-and woodland, and six Saint Bernards. At this point of conspicuous prestige, on June 17, 1952. Fox signed a contract to buy the 121-year...
...Daily Express reported that on the "road from Boston into New York" (presumably Connecticut's Merritt Parkway) there is a sign that reads: "Last Psychiatrist Before Westchester...
...good many toolmakers want to see more proof. Said an officer of the Atlantic Machine Tool Works serving the Hartford area: "Sure, the tool business in Connecticut is looking up. When you are flat on your back, where else can you look but up?" Pratt & Whitney Co.'s machine-tool plant at West Hartford says that employment is still off 25% from September. Not until general business improves will the tool business really...