Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.) Frank Billings Kellogg D.C.L. Alanson Bigelow Houghton LL.D. Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to U. S LL.D. George Payne McLean, onetime (1911-29) U. S. Senator from Connecticut LL.D. Andrew William Mellon LL.D...
Flying with a mechanic and a passenger between Hartford and Willimantic, Conn, last week, Lieutenant Carl Dixon, Connecticut National Guard pilot, discovered a wheel loose and a strut broken on his landing gear. To land meant wreckage. What to do? He climbed to two thousand feet, gave the controls to the mechanic, who knew but little of piloting, broke a hole in the fuselage bottom, crawled through head first. Hanging by his feet he ingeniously used his belt, a piece of rope and a shoelace to lash the broken gear together. The repair sufficed to let him land safely...
Robert Croly Darling, of Hartford, Connecticut, Summa cum Laude in Chemistry, Harold Freeze Folland of Salt Lake City, Utah, Summa cum Laude in English, Charles Leonard Lundin, of New Bedford, Magna cum Laude in Romance Languages and Literature, are the recipients of Sheldon Fellowships...
Aetna Life Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn...
Sophie Tucker used to be a waitress in the dining room of her father's hotel in Hartford, Conn. She was a fat, jolly girl, and the patrons of the Tucker House, many of them show people, told her she ought to go on the stage. They made fun of her deep, mournful voice, telling her they liked the way she sang. One night she ran away from home leaving a letter informing her father that she would never come back until she was famous. She plugged black-face songs in movie houses until...