Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wonder in 1939, turned out to be turning out all right, despite his unpromising start. As a college boy he had won national fame by swallowing 42 goldfish (washed down with chocolate soda); he then dropped out of sight. This week he was looking for a house in West Hartford, Conn, to settle down as boss of emergency messages for the American Radio Relay League (radio "hams"). Nobody held his past against him, and he never touched the stuff any more...
...Hartford, Conn., owners of 80 antique automobiles donned linen dusters, set out on a 500-mile drive through New England in a revival of the Glidden Tour (an annual road race for horseless carriages which Financier Charles Glidden established in 1905 to popularize automobiling). The driver most in need of a horse: William E. Swigart Jr. of Huntingdon, Pa., whose 1908 Ford blew a piston head, broke a timing gear, contracted radiator leaks and collapse of the spark coil, and had seven flat tires before he got to the Hartford starting line...
Meanwhile, at Westminster, Western Maryland, college officials pondered the fate of a doughty band of 27 undergraduates reported about 13 miles east of Hartford and 30 miles from the Massachusetts border. Earlier, four-and possibly five-of the group were eliminated from the northward trek by truck...
Edward G. Seidensticker, enroute to the University from Denver, underwent an emergency appendectomy in Hartford, Connecticut yesterday after having been stricken ill shortly after his plane left Cleveland. His condition last night was reported as good...
...threatened by Communism got into really bad economic health, the U.S. would rush in and help it. If insurance were taken out only by the sickest people, insurance companies would not last very long. So the companies do not do business that way -at least, not the ones in Hartford...