Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hartford, Conn...
Flameproofed Big Top. Whether this year's circus would ever get under canvas after its indoor runs in Manhattan and Boston was, up to this week, still in doubt. With six key circus men convicted of involuntary manslaughter following the Hartford fire that cost 168 lives last July, the circus faced complicated technical problems which it saw no way of solving while these men (whom it considers irreplaceable) are in prison. Last week, after a Hartford judge suspended one man's sentence and gave two of the officials sixty days' freedom before starting to serve their lightened...
...cheese weeks to get away with. Last week, with the circus due in town, Manhattan city desks braced themselves for the old bag of superlatives: "astounding . . . prodigious and prodigal plenitude of pageantry." But circus publicists were parading a new and restrained descriptive, born of last season's disastrous Hartford big-top blaze (TIME. July 7). The favorite 1945 adjective: "Flameproofed...
...Boxing Administrator Eddie Eagan (TIME, Jan. 22) was the world's featherweight champion, Willie Pep. A master boxer with a featherweight punch, he had been dubbed "BackPedaling Bill" by the fans. But in last week's 15-round championship battle with Bronx Phil Terranova, Hartford's nimble 124-lb. Willie put on the fighting-est show of his career...
After taking a fourth-round sock on the jaw, he stood his ground for the next eight rounds, coolly exploiting the art of hitting and not being hit. Then, realizing that he was far ahead on points, Hartford Willie coasted to his 86th victory in 87 professional fights...