Word: hartford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celebrate the 183rd birthday of Lexicographer Noah Webster, 500 citizens of the well-heeled, suburban town of West Hartford, Conn, tricked themselves out in costumes and gathered before their Town Hall. For West Hartford's most famous native son is Noah Webster...
Mattatuck Drum Corps, from nearby Waterbury, paraded in Revolutionary uniforms, rattling loud tattoos. Traffic Cop Arnold Belanger dressed up like George Washington. The Rev. Rockwell Harmon Potter, dean of Hartford Theological Seminary, read a prologue. But, in spite of this whoop-dee-do, West Hartfordians' emotions were mixed. They had been mixed ever since Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski had first suggested adorning West Hartford with his statue of Noah Webster...
When Boston-born Sculptor Ziolkowski moved to West Hartford five years ago he was shocked to find no statue of the town's famous son, said he would create one if West Hartford would raise $16,519 to pay expenses. When public-spirited West Hartfordians kicked in a mere $3,700, Sculptor Ziolkowski was hurt, but agreed to carry on. Saying that the money would not provide him a shed to work in, Ziolkowski borrowed a trailer and carted a 32-ton block of Tennessee marble onto the lawn in front of West Hartford's prim Town Hall...
...Allen Jr., Manchester, N.H., Phillips Exeter Academy; Stanley R. Ashby Jr., Orono, Mc., Groton School; Paul Coste Jr., Jamestown, R.I., Kent School; Roger L. Creighton, Belment, New Hampton School; John J. Dorgan Jr., Providence, R.I., Classical High School; Kenneth Fremont-Smith, Cambridge, Phillips Exeter Academy; Alan N. Houghton, West Hartford, Conn., Loomis School; John D. Kendall, Fairfield, Conn., Wooster School; Ernest L. Levinger, Fitchburg, George Washington School, N.Y.C...
George B. McMcnnamin, Rumford, Mc., Stephens High School; William S. Malcom, Norfolk, Conn., St. Paul's School; Ellery R. Purdy Jr., Rutland, Vt., Phillips Exeter Academy; DeForest P. Rudd II, Boston, Edewood School; Ward B. Sanford, Hartford, Conn., Loomis School; George T. Terrien, Nashua, N. H., Nashua High School; Peter B. Tomkins, Washington, Conn., The Gunnery School; Philip Troen, Portland, Mc., Portland High School; Roger C. Tyler, Weston, Phillips Exeter Academy; and Richard P. Voegele, Danbury, Conn., Danbury High School...