Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ingersoll Man. It has been dominating Lehmkuhl's company for about 60 years. Founded in the mid-19th century as the Waterbury Clock Co., it tick-tocked along comfortably in Connecticut's Naugatuck River Valley until 1892. Then a mail-order promoter named Robert H. Ingersoll picked up a doughnut-sized (1 in. thick) Waterbury pocket watch, decided that it could be mass-marketed for a dollar. It was so gigantic a success that Theodore Roosevelt, hunting in Africa, found himself identified not as U.S. President but as "the man from the land where Ingersolls are made...
Only a narrow belt along the seacoast of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut escaped the minus readings, but night brought temperatures of 10 degrees to that strip...
...other four teams entered in the tournament are Amherst. Brown, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Connecticut, winner of the first tournament in 1953, is favored to repeat this year. Last season's winner, Dartmouth, also rated one of the top teams in the Ivy League, is not entered in the tourney...
Dazed & Damaged. The camera moved swiftly on for glimpses of drunken sots on Skid Row and a clinical study of alcoholics in Connecticut's Blue Hills sanatorium, ranging from the treatment of violent arrivals through the slow repairing of the dazed and damaged to the faintly hopeful prognosis of alcoholics about to be released. The most pitiful shots were morning-after scenes in a Philadelphia Magistrates' Court, where the drunk and disorderly were up for sentencing; the most unnerving came when, back in Moriarty's bar, Announcer Grauer hoisted his highball glass and took a final swig...
...Berlin, Conn., after he was nagged down by a cop for illegal passing on the right, Motorist William H. Veale commented: "This is embarrassing," produced a card in traffic court identifying himself as secretary of the Connecticut League for Law Enforcement...