Word: connecticuter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...garden, with the dog, and read the book. What is the life?' " So when peace came they caught a Liberty ship to the U.S. Just to make sure he still had his voice before trying it in Manhattan, he sang his favorite role (Rigoletto) with the Connecticut Opera Company in Hartford. Even so, before his Town Hall recital last week he passed a nervous day. Said he: "To stay in good shape I remain in bed all the day. I get up and drink very strong coffee, do exercises. I test my voice. It is all right. I dress...
Troubles with Congress occupied the President. He talked with Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon on how to push through his apparently stymied bill for a civilian commission to control atomic-energy research. At his press conference, brisk Harry Truman bristled when a reporter asked about another bogged-down piece of legislation: the universal military training bill. Snapped the President: he had done everything he could possibly do, including a personally delivered message of recommendation; he could not order the Senate and House to pass...
Making its first trip for this term, the Glee Club will sing at Wheaton College tonight, with Bach's "Magnificat" as its main selection. They will also appear tomorrow at Connecticut College in New London, and present a concert in Sanders Theatre March 26 in co-operation with the Radcliffe Choral Society...
...this point UNO's Dr. Stoyan Gavrilovic arrived from London. "Greenwich," he sniffed, "is a very small area. I think we can do very nicely without it." He went farther. Any other protests from the rolling Westchester-Connecticut commuters' paradise would also be considered. But he still made it plain that UNO hoped to settle in that general area...
...Sailor Takes a Wife (M-G-M). In the surest-fire Hollywood tradition, a sailor (Robert Walker) meets a girl (June Allyson) in Manhattan. He sweet-talks and kisses her in a taxi in Central Park, marries her that same night in Connecticut before going back to his ship. It is all very fast, young and foolish...