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...this point, Holt had trouble finding the plate and issued two walks in succession to lead the bases, while the capacity crowd whipped itself into a frenzy on the sidelines. The rally came to an abortive end, however, as Fairfield Coogan rifled a line drive right at the first baseman to conclude the contest...
...Chose New York as temporary site (three to five years) and Westchester-Fairfield as permanent site...
Rebecca West was an actress first, a novelist and critic later. She was born Cicily Isabel Fairfield, in County Kerry. She took the name Rebecca West from a part she played in Ibsen's Rosmersholm; her career came from the fact that she preferred her words to someone else...
...embattled Fourth District of Connecticut became well-known all over the U.S. for the first time this autumn, as the whole New Deal poured money and speakers into Fairfield County to try to defeat her. Henry Wallace, Harold Ickes, Orson Welles, Clifton Fadiman and members of what Mrs. Luce called "the whole Broadway-Browder Axis" were all guest stars in the anti-Luce show. The President, himself, asked for her defeat and on election night, when the first returns seemed to augur defeat for the Congresswoman from Connecticut, Franklin Roosevelt told his Hyde Park neighbors: "I think [that] would...
...Vermonters have had much to do with Negroes. In East Fairfield (pop. 475), only one child in the vacation Bible school had ever even seen one. But the Vermonters' native xenophobia was rapidly overcome by the little black visitors' good behavior and good nature. They lived and played with their hosts' children, were well behaved at table, did not suffer from shyness or homesickness, were soon calling their hosts "Uncle" and "Aunt," sometimes...