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...Democratic gain more impressive than in Connecticut. And in Connecticut none of the Democratic victories were more impressive than two: 1 ) in Eastern Connecticut's Second District, onetime (1951-53) Ambassador to India Chester Bowles, 57, toppled five-term Republican Horace Seely-Brown Jr. ; 2) in heavily Republican Fairfield County, Democratic Lawyer Donald J. Irwin defeated Albert P. Morano, became the first Democrat elected in an off-year election in the county in 28 years...
...Sikarskie, Dave '59 FB 21 6.0 196 Petoskey, Mich. 33 Goodwin, Ed '61 FB 19 6.1 188 Millville, N.J. 34 Doelling, Fred '60 HB 19 5.11 173 Valparaiso, Ind. 39 Raser, Bill '59 HB 21 6.0 178 Hartsdale, N.Y. 41 Coffin, Dave '60 B 19 6.0 171 Fairfield, Conn. 43 Clayton, Charles '60 B 21 6.0 171 Philadelphia, Pa. 44 Donahue, Jeff '59 B 19 5.10 162 Fairfield, Conn. 45 Shaw, Edward '59 B 19 5.11 185 Tunkhannock, Pa. 48 Strine, Bill '60 B 20 6.0 165 Media, Pa. 49 Wright, John '59 B 21 6.1 193 Altoona...
Breezy Rise. In 1954, when she suddenly fled Hollywood after starring in 30 major movies since 1940, it hardly seemed possible that glittering Gene Tierney might be "broken." Born well to do, the daughter of a prosperous Manhattan insurance broker with an estate in Connecticut's fashionable Fairfield County, her rise was a breeze. But behind the beauty and breeding, behind the mask of confidence, she hid too much to handle alone. There was quite...
...taped playbacks of students' own speech are proving valuable. Most encouraging statistic of the report: since 1952 an increasing number of school systems have adopted plans similar to the third-grade-through-high-school proposal of Conference Member Mary P. Thompson, curriculum consultant for Connecticut's Fairfield schools. By 1955, says the report. 270,000 children were learning foreign languages in U.S. elementary schools and that was as many as were arduously decoding Babel in all the nation's colleges and universities...
...estate empire estimated at $25 million even while staying "in hock to my eyeballs." Among other interests, he controlled the U.S. Leather Co. (which he liquidated in 1952), held the principal interest in Western Union (which he sold out in 1952). He owned a 47-acre Connecticut estate at Fairfield, a house with a dining room imported from the 18th century London home of David Garrick, 6,500 acres of Maine farm-and woodland, and six Saint Bernards. At this point of conspicuous prestige, on June 17, 1952. Fox signed a contract to buy the 121-year-old Boston Post...