Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hartford, Conn...
...Rough-&-tumble, 20-year-old Willie Pep (real name Papaleo) of Hartford, Conn.: the world's featherweight boxing championship; dethroning cagey, aging Chalky Wright of Los Angeles after a 15-rounder that drew a crowd of 19,000 (and a $71,000 gate); at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Pep, who has won 54 fights in a row, is the third featherweight champion to come from Hartford. His predecessors: "Kid" Kaplan and "Bat" Battalino...
This is the fourth book* that gives the customers reason to stare hard at Wallace Stevens, famed poetical solipsist who wears the world in his hat. For many years this startling person has spent his normal working hours disguised as a lawyer-employe of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., of which he is vice president. Betweenwhiles Stevens, now aged 63, has kept adding to the bulk and scope of his poetical testament...
Reorganization of railroads that went bankrupt before the war boom started is going to be just as drastic as if the war boom had not happened. Such was the gist of an ICC decision last week. With only minor changes it approved the New York, New Haven & Hartford reorganization plan, slashing capitalization from $475,000,000 to $365,000,000. The drastic part of this decision was that the reorganization completely wipes out the old stockholders, although in the first eight months of this year net profits totaled $11,350,000 -$5.77 a common share...
...Divorced. Actress Katharine Hepburn, 33; by Broker Ogden Ludlow of Alexandria, Va.; in Hartford, Conn. Throughout their six-year marriage, ended by Miss Hepburn in a Mexican divorce in 1934, Ludlow stayed so far in the background that he was something of a mystery man. Main known fact: Miss Hepburn got him to revise his name down to Ogden Ludlow from Ludlow Ogden Smith. Concluding, after eight years, that the Mexican divorce might not be legal, Ludlow got another last week to make sure...