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...HAVEN, Conn., May 15-It was like watching the Boston Celtics play the 12-and-under champions of the paraplegic league...
...clearly offered the car for "1,395 bananas." Mrs. Bernice Wyszynski, who figures she can read as well as anyone else, immediately rushed to Used Car Dealer Joseph De Gonge in Bristol, Conn., and plunked down 25 bananas as down payment. Aghast, De Gonge demurred. Incensed, Mrs. Wyszynski appealed to the Connecticut State Department of Consumer Protection. There followed grave official words about such matters as false advertising. Last week De Gonge compromised and accepted Mrs. Wyszynski's offer-not for the banana car, but for a 1962 Pontiac Tempest that otherwise would have cost her $850. Not surprisingly...
Blue Books. Chicago-born John Macy himself could well be first on the list for any number of Administration posts. He was a Phi Beta Kappa and Rhodes scholar nominee at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.,entered Government service through the National Institute of Public Affairs, served as a personnel staff officer in the Army Air Forces. In 1947 he was given a 90-day assignment to run personnel and organization for the Atomic Energy Commission in Santa Fe, N. Mex., stayed on to act as Los Alamos town manager as well until 1951. He joined the Civil Service Commission...
...reasons his works were so long neglected was that Ives scared off every commercial music publisher by insisting that he receive no royalties and they no profits. As a result, his Third Symphony lay unplayed in his West Redding, Conn., barn for 42 years before it was finally performed-and then it won the Pulitzer Prize (1947). Cantankerous Yankee that he was, Ives was repelled at the prospect of remuneration for his art. "Prizes, bah! They are the badge of mediocrity!" he roared when told of the Pulitzer award...
...figure-skating champion, a pretty blonde perfectionist who lost her chance to win a world title when the Olympics were suspended for twelve years during and after World War II and, when they resumed in 1948, finished a disappointing eighth, after which she retired from competition; in Windsor, Conn., where she had been under treatment for emotional problems for the last three years...