Word: connecticuter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There it sat, an $18 million imitation English village, spang in the midst of the Connecticut countryside. An eccentric old woman had built Avon Old Farms as the spit & image of a Cotswold village, with carefully warped roofs, rippled window panes, synthetically worn stairs. She had meant it for a boys' school. There were no students at Avon last week. The only sign of schoolboy life was a boy named Butch, busy tacking up college pennants in a monklike cubicle in one of the dormitories, installing model airplanes, and littering up the joint after the fashion of twelve-year...
Died. James Lukens McConaughy, 60, 75th Governor of Connecticut (1947-48), longtime college president (Knox College, 1918-25, Wesleyan University, 1925-43); of coronary thrombosis; in Hartford. A liberal educator who became Lieutenant Governor in 1939, lean, austere-looking "Big Jim" once wrote: "With all the temptations, dangers and degradations that beset it, politics is still, I think, the noblest career that a man can choose...
Radcliffe's Iota chapter has elected Gladys Paul Rudy of West Hartford, Connecticut, Judith Aun Spector of Brooklyn, New York, and Irene of Brighten, all Radcliffe '49, to Phi Beta Kappa...
...Rock Ridge Night Rocket, who looks as if he wouldn't last five minutes in an alley fight, lives in style at the Connecticut kennels of his owner, William A. Rockefeller (John D.'s grandnephew). Out at the kennels, which even have an imitation red water hydrant to entertain the Bedlingtons, the grand champion answers to "Timmie." Only two years old next month, he was handled in the ring by Anthony Neary, a square-beamed Bedlington coal miner who helped introduce the breed to U.S. shows 18 years...
Concert Boycott. Even then, he was a cantankerous recluse. He has never gone to concerts, never reads newspapers, won't have a radio in his house. Now ill, Ives lives simply in a hilltop home in Connecticut with his wife, Harmony...