Word: connecticuter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alexander J. Derouin, a gardener, defeated 158 women entrants in a Connecticut Grange cookie-making contest. Said he: "It's self-preservation. My wife is a lecturer for the Grange, president of the American Legion auxiliary and a member of a dozen clubs. If I couldn't cook, I'd starve...
...occasion, the 72-year-old hero of the day, snow-thatched Hiram Bingham, ex-Senator from Connecticut (1924-33), ex-Yale professor and explorer, had come all the way from New Haven, Conn. He was greeted by an archbishop, a prefect, two senators, the mayor of Cuzco, and the U.S. ambassador. Together they celebrated the opening of a new highway up Andean cliffs to Machu Picchu (pronounced manchew peaktu), the ancient Inca capital discovered by Explorer Bingham in 1911. The roadway's name, proclaimed by Peru's President Luis Bustamante: the Hiram Bingham Highway (pronounced Eeram Bingam Igwye...
This year Dartmouth no longer boasts its ace forward, Bobby Merriam, and has an unimpressive record. It has improved, however, since its opening game loss to Connecticut by winning the last two games...
...Tufts eleven opened into season this year by losing, 7 to 0, to Amherst, a team which the Crimson later blanked, 3 to 0. The Jumbos then dropped a 5 to 0 affair to the University of Connecticut, and finally, last Saturday, scored their first goal and beat Fort Devens, one of the weakest teams in this area, by a 1 to 0 score...
Died. Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross, 86, tweedy four-term Democratic governor of Connecticut (1931-39), longtime dean of the Yale Graduate School (1916-30), scholarly editor (1911-40) of the Yale Review, an authority on the 18th Century English novel (The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne, A History of Henry Fielding); in New Haven, Conn...