Word: connecticuter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the death of Connecticut's able Democratic Senator Francis Maloney (TIME, Jan. 29), Republicans & Democrats have wrangled over his successor. In Connecticut's Legislature, Republicans control the House, Democrats the Senate. To obviate holding a special election, the House passed a bill giving Republican Governor Raymond Baldwin power to appoint a successor. Democrats balked, said they would not pass the bill until they knew the name of the Governor's choice...
Franklin Pierce (F.P.A.) Adams, odds-&-ends expert on radio's Information Please, learned that a bill had been introduced in the Connecticut legislature for the appointment of a poet laureate, promptly declared himself a candidate. He said he "favored a front-porch campaign...
William S. Hart, hard-riding hero of the silent horse operas, who last month gave $50,000 for a park and museum in Hollywood, shelled out another $100,000-to the Connecticut Humane Society for a memorial to his sister: a shelter for stray dogs and cats in Westport, Conn...
Writes Thurber: "Thurber goes on as he always has, walking now a little more slowly, answering fewer letters, jumping at slighter sounds. . . . He [moves] restlessly from one Connecticut town to another, hunting for the Great Good Place. There he plans to spend his days reading Huckleberry Finn...
During the war, Miss Ferber has been devoting much of her time to war work, the nature of which she refuses to disclose. She has closed her big Connecticut house and is living in a big Park Avenue duplex apartment. Sick to death at the moment, of novel-writing, she is feverishly working on a play. "Novels are a waste of time," she declares, "when there are plays to be written, real plays." She still cherishes an ambition to become an actress...