Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PornoGraphic, the paper assaulted the town with scandal, reported what nobody else would dream of printing, invented what it could not report. Leading the assault from a desk littered with busts of Napoleon was a short (5 ft. 2 in.), lame martinet named Emile Henry Gauvreau, a Connecticut-born newsman of French Canadian-Irish descent. His brilliance as a reporter and editor made him managing editor of the conservative old Hartford Courant at the age of 26. But the Courant was too slow for Gauvreau's new ideas. After it fired him, Macfadden lured him to launch the Graphic...
...sisters' needlework that first attracted John Trumbull to art. His father found the attraction inappropriate on two counts: first, young John had lost the use of one eye in a childhood accident, and second, he was a gentleman. Picturemaking, for the handsome son of the governor of Connecticut, was unthinkable. Accordingly, odd John was packed off to Harvard for polishing. There, however, he called on the greatest of American portraitists, John Singleton Copley, and painted and copied all the pictures he could. He was one of the first male American aristocrats to take brush in hand (Copley came from...
Graham B. Blaine '40, got his M.D. in 1943 and worked at Bellevue and Veterans Hospital in New York City. A general practitioner in Connecticut in 1947-50, he worked for the Riggs foundation before coming here...
Down at the brave new world of New Haven, athletic Elis have practiced to the drone of slogans designed to remind them of their close shave with the University of Connecticut and their struggle with Columbia...
Some business leaders still viewed that prospect with the kind of alarm that caused the market to dip after the Republicans lost the Maine state elections. "Venture capital," said one, "would crawl into its shell and creep away." Others shrugged their shoulders. "You might do better with Ike," said Connecticut's Richard G. Williams, major stockholder of the J. B. Williams Co., "but you won't go broke with Stevenson...