Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...search he was repeatedly reminded of folks around the office. Once he got the Zoo idea, he looked at thousands of zoological portraits before he tackled Doubleday with a choice lot. Enthusiastic but careful, the publisher tried it out in a real white-collar city, insurance capital Hartford, Conn., where Zoo went like animal crackers during a kindergarten recess. Published on July 7, it hit the bestseller lists in two weeks, headed them in two months and has stayed firmly on top ever since. Last week, with over 260,000 copies sold, it was moving over the counters...
After both had left Washington again, New Dealing Chester Bowles got himself elected governor of Connecticut while restless Bill Benton was still looking for something new to keep him busy. Last week, news leaked from the governor's office in Hartford that Bill Benton, now 49, had finally found it. To the ill-concealed dismay of Connecticut's regular Democrats, his old friend and partner Chester Bowles had decided on Benton, an independent and member of no political party, to succeed Republican Raymond E. Baldwin, who leaves the U.S. Senate this month for a seat on the Connecticut...
Phillip Louis Isenberg '51, of Hartford, Connecticut and Winthrop House, yesterday became Harvard's 73rd captain of football by vote of 34 lettermen in Dillon Field House. At the same time, Wilbur Michel Davis '50, of Brooklyn, New York and Lowell House, was voted the first Frederick Greeley Crocker memorial plaque as the team's most valuable player...
Frank Lloyd Wright has designed what he calls "The New Theater" for the citizens of Hartford, Connecticut. Although he is almost 80, and has never before designed a theater plant, Mr. Wright is well up on the latest developments and trends in theater planning. This understanding, as well as he imagination and perspective which have prompted some to call him "the outstanding architect of the twentieth century," are apparent in his model of the Hartford playhouses, now being shown in Fogg Museum...
...Theater" is ideal for Hartford, where it will probably be used as a community playhouse, but Broadway will not feel its influence for many years. A few elements may cause trouble even in Hartford. For example, the revolving stage may be called upon to perform more than it is functionally able to, in the matter of scene shifts. Mr. Wright's claim that the playhouse will bring "a new life for the theater" is premature at this point...