Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back at Work. In Greensboro, N.C., while the doctors fretted back in Decatur, Margaret met Connecticut Dog Trainer Ted Young Jr., who, for such a good customer, had obligingly responded to a long-distance call and had driven some 630 miles south to pick up her dogs for safekeeping. She kept the most valuable cocker. Rise and Shine; surprisingly, she included Capital Gains among those sent to Connecticut. Bidding the servants farewell, abandoning the furniture vans, Margaret and Sheila Joy drove north to Baltimore, then west to Oklahoma. The FBI put out a nationwide alarm...
...hope," said Rector and Headmaster John O. Patterson of Connecticut's Kent School, "that this meeting may be a means of regaining and restating what general education could be within a Christ-centered culture.'' Rector Patterson was addressing a group of theologians and scholars of many faiths who had come for a special symposium marking Episcopal Kent's soth birthday. Now published in book form (The Christian Idea of Education; Yale University; $4), the papers and discussions of that symposium cast fresh light on one of modern education's greatest lacks and needs...
...Dave Jr. is still unmarried. In Washington, Bob Kennedy said he had not been at the Skakels'. In Manhattan, an A.P. man checked a picture taken at the party and realized that the man identified as Dave Jr. was not the Teamster boss's son. But Connecticut's Stamford Advocate (circ. 24,674), which originated the story, insisted that George Skakel had "solemnly confirmed" that the Becks had been at his home. Instead of killing the story, the A.P. rewrote the lead: "The Stamford Advocate said today...
JAMES LUKENS McCONAUGHY JR., 42, will become the new chief of the Washington bureau. A graduate of Wesleyan University, where his father, later governor of Connecticut, was president, McConaughy came to TIME in 1938 as a summer-vacation office boy. During World War II he was a Marine bombing control officer in the Pacific. He served as bureau chief in Ottawa and Seattle before he moved to Washington in 1951 to report on Capitol Hill. Covering Congress for TIME, big (6 ft. 2 in., 203 lbs.), greying Jim McConaughy says, has been like "trying to report six fires with each...
...everything from tooth paste (use precipitated chalk) to fly spray (mix pyrethrum powder and kerosene). By this year 900,000 subscribers were paying $5 a year for the reports, and the Union had 75 part-time shoppers in 50 cities, a headquarters staff of 175, an automobile laboratory in Connecticut, a textile laboratory in Massachusetts...