Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lana Turner, 27, has been married to Band Leader Artie Shaw and Actor Stephen Crane (married, annulled, remarried, divorced-one child). She had also been linked, as the columnists say, with Turhan Bey, George Huntington Hartford Jr., Victor Mature, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power and-just before she met Topping-a Yale man named Talbot...
...Pullman Porter Fred Wright, 67, who went to work for the New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad as a water boy when he was twelve ("I had a can, and went through the cars hollering 'water!' "), was awarded a gold pin for 55 years' service. His favorite car is the Lightning. "I use to talk to that car during the depression when sometimes there wouldn't be a passenger on the whole trip. I'd say: 'Lightning, old girl, we got to do better.' And now we're doing lots better...
With a 15 percent fare increase on interstate coach travel now in effect, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad will meet the heavy rush by providing extra cars and employing special schedules on their peak days Tuesday and Wednesday...
...poet who perhaps came closest to succeeding was 68-year-old Wallace Stevens, a Hartford insurance man, in his latest book, Transport to Summer. W. H. Auden, an intellectual acrobat and a verbal magician, turned out 1947's most discussed book of verse: The Age of Anxiety. This modern eclogue described a chance meeting of four paper-thin characters in a Third Avenue bar; its moral was ex-radical Auden's glowing belief that worldly goods must be rejected. The verse itself was dexterous, bright but self-indulgent...
October graduates named are Maurico C. Benewitz '47 of Hartford, Connecticut; Joseph S. Berliner '48 of Harvardevens; Sheldon R. Braiterman '48 of Ballimore; Mark R. Leiserson '48 of Washington; Donald R. Miller '47 of Jersoy City, New Jersoy; William J. Moss '44 of St. Pail. Minnesota; Alexander Rich '46 of Springfield; Alan R. Solomon '42 of Cambridge...