Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, after three days of conferences in the chambers of Connecticut Judge Elmer W. Ryan, an agreement was finally worked out. The contract contained no promise that the company would not move. But in a letter to the local (not part of the contract and not binding on the company), President Frank H. James gave his assurance that Norwalk would continue to be the company's center of operations. To the men who had trod the bricks for ten months, it was a face-saving gesture-and a costly sop. During the strike the workers lost more than...
...Brien (an "imaginary" character who is responsible for a vicious climate called O'Brienism) goes after Whitehead on trumped-up charges of being a Soviet agent, a lot of recent imaginary history is tediously rewritten. Badgered by O'Brien, his job lost. Whitehead takes off for a Connecticut farm where he bravely exults to diary: "Farming and writing-that will be a life!" Cutting O'Brien down to size may be a worthy aim, but there must be a less tedious way of doirfg it. If there were a Fifth Amendment for literature. Author Shirer should have...
...dressing for a chilly British spring. The natural result is lassitude and a lowered cultural level. Dr. Wulsin implies that if modern tropical people, such as his Florida hosts, could learn to go bare as the Balinese, they might support as lively a culture as Professor Huntington's Connecticut...
...road back. Items: ¶ Sales in 44 chain stores and mail-order houses in April reversed an eight-month slide, pushed 4.4% higher than a year ago. ¶The stock market hit another new high; Dow-Jones industrials rose 1.20, to 322.50. ¶The bond market was booming. Connecticut's first $100 million bond issue for its $398 million toll expressway was snapped up by 250 investment bankers. The Treasury Department offered $2.2 billion in 4¼-year notes, got so many orders that it had to turn down $7.5 billion...
...Dick, the unabashed and unregenerate punster, is the funniest part of Author Peter De Vroes's novel. The story is prety funny too-if somewhat special. It is centered in suburban Connecticut, where a slightly adulterous bunch of New York writers, artists and editors repair from their labors to indulge their neuroses and libidos. Cartoonist Augie Poole is one of them, a 16-cylinder Lothario who knows how to operate on curves. Augie's wife can turn her"china-blue eyes on her husband like two gun barrels," but she loves him and they decide to make themselves...