Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Piclc-Me-Up. In Hartford, Conn., Clyde Wise was taken to a hospital after downing a Sunday-morning mixed drink containing a can of beer, two bottles of Mercurochrome, a bottle of iodine, 50 aspirins. Epsom salts, cold pills, a bottle of paregoric, ink eradicator, adhesive-tape remover, vitamin pills...
...home state of Connecticut, John Alsop carries some impressive credentials. He belongs to an old Avon (Conn.) family, went to exclusive Groton and Yale ('37), served overseas in the cloak-and-dagger OSS in World War II, steadily climbed the promotion ladder in Hartford's Mutual Insurance Co. from field inspector ('46) to president ('53), twice won election to the Connecticut General Assembly (1947 and 1949), and won friends among Eisenhower Republicans as a Connecticut Yankee for Ike in both...
...because the campaign "will not affect our personal friendship in any way." Also in the running: former U.S. Representative Thomas J. Dodd, who tried for the Senate in 1956, felt that the state machine failed to back him, this year has virtually sewed up his own powerful bailiwick of Hartford County (pop. 619,000) and much organizational support, may well mow down both Benton and Bowles...
Died. Tertius van Dyke, 72, dean emeritus of Connecticut's Hartford Theological Seminary, onetime pastor of Manhattan's Park Avenue Presbyterian Church ("Religion makes a very small dent upon New York"), son and biographer of clergyman-educator Henry van Dyke; of" pneumonia; in New Milford, Conn...
...detailing the beneficial effects of foreign trade in 120 different Congressional districts. As of last week, ten studies had been completed and hand-delivered by Commerce Department officials to the ten. Congressmen from the districts covered. Studying Commerce's brochure on Connecticut's First District (machinery-manufacturing Hartford), the district's Republican Representative Edwin Hyland May Jr. made up his mind to vote for the Administration bill...