Word: connecticuts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meeting in Connecticut...
Your story on Cartoonist Helen Hokinson [TiME, Nov. 14] brought vividly to mind our meeting in Connecticut several summers ago. My husband and I were vacationing in the East, and on the strength of having sold her four cartoon suggestions (one: "Now, please bear in mind that I am not Ingrid Bergman"-see cut), we asked her to meet us for cocktails . . . We found her to be shy, modest, thoroughly affable, and reminiscent of her women . . . When we asked her what she'd like to drink, she said: "A glass of iced tea. Hard liquor makes...
After both had left Washington again, New Dealing Chester Bowles got himself elected governor of Connecticut while restless Bill Benton was still looking for something new to keep him busy. Last week, news leaked from the governor's office in Hartford that Bill Benton, now 49, had finally found it. To the ill-concealed dismay of Connecticut's regular Democrats, his old friend and partner Chester Bowles had decided on Benton, an independent and member of no political party, to succeed Republican Raymond E. Baldwin, who leaves the U.S. Senate this month for a seat on the Connecticut...
That was only the beginning of it. Under an old and odd Connecticut law, all the liquid and real assets jointly owned by Mrs. McCullough and her husband, a picture editor of TIME, were forthwith frozen: a $2,000 bank account, a piece of property worth about $7,500, their $65,000 house (mortgaged...
...Connecticut Author Mortimer Smith (The Life of Ole Bull) had four children of school age, but like most parents, he had never bothered to find out much about the public schools they were going to. Three years ago, he became a member of the regional high-school board for the towns of Newtown, Woodbury, Southbury and Bethlehem, and "Oh my," says he, "how my eyes were opened...