Word: hartford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Success had had its bitter side for little Willie Pep. As fancy a featherweight as ever tied on gloves, he won so many fights (134 against one defeat) that home-town Hartford, Conn, took him for granted. Willie grew cocky and careless. Result: last October he was knocked out cold by Challenger Sandy Saddler. Willie lost his featherweight crown, but in defeat Hartford began to rally round him and he became a town hero on a comeback trail. The home folks bellowed for a return engagement...
...Heir Huntington Hartford, 38, heretofore known chiefly as yachtsman, playboy and young man about models (in 1947 he started his own agency), went in seriously for the arts. He filed formal application with the Los Angeles City Zoning Commission to build and endow a 20-building, $150,000-a-year "School for Genius" on 41 acres in the nearby Santa Monica mountains. The prospective student body: recent university graduates in the fields of writing, painting, sculpture and music...
Died. George Jackson Mead, 57, co-founder of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co., aircraft engine designer (he developed the Wasp engine, which provided the basic design for half the power plants used in World War II U.S. warplanes); after long illness; in West Hartford, Conn...
...their first game after vacation they took a 64-38 shellacking from Hartford but bounced back to defeat Tufts 58-33 six days later, January 12. Just before exam period began they chewed Tabor apart 63-40. The freshmen will return to action February 9 against Newman Prep...
Harper's boys started the season auspiciously with a 46-40 victory over Brown December 4. In their Cambridge debut the freshmen lost to Northeastern 71-52. Then they travelled to Hartford on the 16th to administer a 43-37 defeat to Trinity...