Word: hartford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hartford, Conn...
...Asiatic Fleet. Tommy Hart stalked Miss Brownson for seven years before he married her. Today they have three daughters, a pair of married sons. One of them, Ensign "Tommy" Hart, graduated from Annapolis in 1939; t he other, Roswell, is, according to the Admiral, "a pretty good businessman in Hartford, Conn...
Because Colt's Patent Fire Arms factory in Hartford was bogged down with other orders, High Standard just twelve months ago received a British order for 12,000 such guns. Tiny High Standard had World War I-seasoned talent,* but neither facilities nor tools. On a suburban weed patch in Hamden it built a seven-acre, modern steel & glass factory in four months. Into a market already picked bare, it dispatched its experts to find machine tools...
...breakfast tea. At a broadcasting studio they laughed their heads off at Eddie Cantor. They arrived at Lady in the Dark 25 minutes late, chatted with Gertrude Lawrence in her dressing room. He wore out reporters in a fast five-hour tour of United Aircraft Corp. plant in East Hartford. She got a permanent. Son of a famous stamp collector, he disclosed he had no collection of his own, explained: "I couldn't see the sense of having two collections in one family." En route to a weekend in New Jersey they discovered valet, maid and all their baggage...
Sculptor Ziolkowski said the lines came from a letter Webster once wrote to John Jay, but to jittery West Hartfordians this looked like a personal insult. Sniffed the Hartford Courant: "If Mr. Ziolkowski chooses to use his statue of Noah Webster as a billboard on which to publish his feelings toward his fellow townsmen, that, of course, is his business." Wailed the West Hartford Metropolitan Shopping News: "Perhaps he has forgotten, as many men do today, the teaching of the Good Book which advocates in one place the turning of the other cheek...