Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Managing Editor Lee Hills, Miami Herald; President Roy W. Howard, Scripps-Howard Newspapers; Publisher Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Denver Post; President Philip L. Jackson, Portland Journal Publishing Co.; Publisher H. G. Kern, Boston Record; Publisher Charles B. McCabe, New York Mirror; Publisher Malcolm Muir, Newsweek; Publisher Francis S. Murphy, Hartford Times; President Ralph Nicholson, New Orleans Item Co.; Publisher Paul Patterson, Baltimore Sun;, Associate Editor Robert Reed, Kansas City Star; Publisher James G. Stahlman, Nashville Banner; President John Wheeler, North American Newspaper Alliance...
...started in 1927 by the late Mrs. Theodate Pope Riddle, domineering daughter of a steel millionaire and wife of a onetime U.S. Ambassador to czarist Russia. An admirer of the medieval and a semiprofessional architect, she personally sidewalk-superintended the construction of Avon Old Farms, twelve miles out of Hartford. Only hand-hewn stone and oak were used, and bricklayers had to rip out rows of crude bricks because they laid them in too straight to suit Mrs. Riddle (it cost her $125,000 to do over the dining-hall roof...
Died. James Lukens McConaughy, 60, 75th Governor of Connecticut (1947-48), longtime college president (Knox College, 1918-25, Wesleyan University, 1925-43); of coronary thrombosis; in Hartford. A liberal educator who became Lieutenant Governor in 1939, lean, austere-looking "Big Jim" once wrote: "With all the temptations, dangers and degradations that beset it, politics is still, I think, the noblest career that a man can choose...
...what one TIME editor called "the vast and lurid and exciting and beautiful bibliography of balance sheets," TIME broke new ground. It went to great pains to get a picture of Sosthenes Behn (the only available picture had a beard which he had shaved long before), and introduced the Hartford brothers to their A. & P. stores' customers. Out of those efforts grew FORTUNE. Even in its early years, TIME was highly selective about the three-inch, one-column portraits of people which were then the only kind of illustration TIME used. It tried for pictures (not always flattering) which...
Radcliffe's Iota chapter has elected Gladys Paul Rudy of West Hartford, Connecticut, Judith Aun Spector of Brooklyn, New York, and Irene of Brighten, all Radcliffe '49, to Phi Beta Kappa...