Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Derby Day at Yale is no longer, but the lightweight race between the Crimson, Yale, and Princeton will take place at Derby, Connecticut again this Saturday. The triangular regatta for the Goldthwait Cup, with Princeton rated a slight favorite, should test the ability of the Crimson crew to its limit...
...varsity lightweight contest at Dartmouth tomorrow the Crimson probably will experience little trouble. The race will be rowed downstream on the swift Connecticut so that the time for the mile and five-sixteenths Henley course is about five minutes rather than the seven it takes on the Charles...
Crimson crews had a field day yesterday afternoon as they swept Amherst on the choppy Connecticut River. The Yardling second crew turned in the best time over the one mile course in outdistancing the Lord Jeff Freshmen by one-quarter of a mile. Considering the strong current, their 7:40 time was excellent...
Foreign Aid. "People are very much in favor of it," reported Connecticut G.O.P. Congressman Edwin May. "I'm in favor," said Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler, "but the people in my district show very little interest." "My people are in favor of cutting down," said South Carolina Democrat William Jennings Bryan Dorn. Said Minnesota's First District Congressman Albert H. Quie: "There's been a change in Minnesota. I've even seen farmer meetings where resolutions are passed supporting reciprocal trade." Chicago Democrat John C. Kluczynski switched over recess from an anti-aid stand. Said...
...from The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. There is a touch of poetic justice about Sloan Wilson's success, for he used to be far more fascinated by business than by the writing game, once dreamed of making his fortune in soybeans. (He was born into a Connecticut literary family, and his financial fancies, he thinks, were a kind of "adolescent rebellion in reverse.") Now a dedicated writer. Wilson is nevertheless in the midst of a business coup that is interesting publishers' row a lot more than soybeans. Author Wilson has taken a baby step toward becoming...