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...with an Ax. His sympathy for the underdog aroused, Ziolkowski closed his studio at Hartford. Conn., went to the Black Hills of South Dakota to build his monument as a symbol of the down trodden of the earth. But the late terrible-tempered Harold Ickes, then Secretary of the Interior, snapped at him: "I won't permit you to carve up my mountains." That was not enough to stop Ziolkowski: he bought a mountain...
Watershed. In Hartford, Conn., weathermen of the Connecticut Valley branch of the American Meteorological Society, rained out in 1955, announced that they had reserved for their annual picnic an "area with indoor facilities...
Died. Thomas Albert Dwight ("Tad") Jones, 70, famed Yale quarterback (1905-07), head football coach (1920-27) with a record of 49 wins, 14 losses, four ties; of cancer; in Hamden, Conn...
...nail on the head by making the Award to Anderson, Beckwith & Haible (Boston) for the magnificent Office Building for Boston Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company in Waltham, Mass.; and by singing out for commendation the Brandeis University Interfaith Center in Waltham, and the Tokeneke Elementary School in Darien, Conn...
...took young Democrat Richard C. Lee three tries (missing on the second by two votes) to unseat plodding Republican Undertaker William Celentano as mayor of heavily Italian, heavily industrial New Haven, Conn. (pop. 167,700). It has taken aggressive ex-Reporter Lee, 41, only 3½ years to give his cramped old birthplace (founded 1638) new pride in something more than its elm trees, Yankee traditions and Yale University. Firmly scuttling nostalgia ("Our greatness lies in the future"), Lee has put New Haven foremost among New England cities in striking at the illnesses that plague all U.S. municipalities: the exodus...