Word: connecticuter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first two meets, on April 20 and 27, saw the Mikkolamen smother first Tufts and Connecticut, and then Rhode Island and Holy Cross. By grabbing most of the win, place, and show monies, the Crimson copped 216 1/6 of a possible 325 points for the two contests. The Fisher boys, Jack and Willo, started their hegemony over the weight events, finishing one-two and two-one in the hammer throw on the two successive Saturdays. Jack Hunter, high and low hurdle artist, was elected captain just after the first meet...
...boiled front of Connecticut's shirtsleeve C.I.O.-P.A.C. is a name-studded, money-gathering outfit called the Connecticut Citizens Political Action Committee. Born at a gala January party, the 500-member C.C.P.A.C. chose as its chairman lean, bespectacled Dr. Liston Pope, associate professor of social ethics at Yale. For balance, Torchsinger Libby Holman was named vice chairman, and Mrs. Howard Brubaker, wife of a New Yorker paragrapher, executive secretary...
...Providence nine has suffered five losses so far this season in addition to the defeat at the hands of the Crimson and have scored two wins, over Tufts, 12 to 0, and Connecticut, 7 to 5. The Bruins' chief trouble in their tangle with the Stahlmen was shortstop, Bob Brownell, who fumbled weak hits often enough to get credited with four errors...
Tied for ninth place was the Crimson's Bill Rickenbacker who scored a 90-84-174. At the end of eighteen holes, Mulcahy was two strokes down to Jack De Garmo of Connecticut. Picking up four strokes on the outgoing afternoon nine, he salted the tourney away with a 4-4-3 on the final holes...
...Connecticut's Representative Clare Boothe Luce, whose only daughter was killed in a 1944 California motor accident, spoke as one who had experienced the "heartbreak . . . of such tragedy . . . of needless and useless traffic deaths," and called on U.S. communities to regard traffic violators as "potential murderers...