Word: darien
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most forthright witnesses have ever encountered," is the way Circuit Judge Rodney S. Eielson described William G. Alpert, 20, of Darien, Conn., at last month's trial and conviction of 19-year-old Michael Smith for negligent homicide in the car-crash death of Nancy Hitchings. Alpert, Smith's chum at Norwalk Community College, a night school, had volunteered vivid descriptions of staggering drunkenness at the debutante party that preceded the fatal accident. He himself did not drink, said Alpert, airily explaining: "I have no need to dull my senses...
...were very light. Soft drinks were available, and the highballs were served only before dinner. Concluded Dutcher: "I am particularly concerned about the bad publicity that has been given our town. I have lived in many parts of the country, and I can assure you that the residents of Darien are among the finest people that I have ever known...
...through the trial, over a hundred dinner tables, Darien parents kept protesting that Darien was no different from any other high-tax suburb on the flanks of a hundred other U.S. cities. But even to some of the inhabitants, Darien seemed wilder than most. In the weekly Darien Review, Episcopal Rector William C. Bartlett described the town as a place "where ninth-graders drink vodka on the school bus." Early this year an entrepreneur opened a teen-age nightclub that had dancing but only soft drinks. It failed. "The kids around here just won't go to a place...
...evening of last June 22 in Darien, Conn., had seemed like many another summer night. A vice president of the Johns-Manville Corp., Francis E. Dutcher, and his wife gave a dinner party for their debutante daughter Nancy. Then there was a dance for about 250 youngsters under a tent on the spacious grounds of Psychiatrist George S. Hughes and his wife, who were giving it with their friends, the William F. Otterstroms (he is general auditor of the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp.) and the Dudley Felts (he is a consulting engineer), in honor of the families' three debutante...
...week's end, the verdict on the trial was still not in; nor was the verdict on Darien. But Judge Eielson had his own views: "I don't think things are the way they should be in a community," he said, "where the majority of 250 youngsters are drunk by the end of the evening-think what a percentage of the families in Darien that figure represents-where teen-agers can force parents to reopen the bar at 12:30 in the morning, and where it seems that almost all of those kids left the party with...