Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Hartford, Conn...
...report. Leading the assault from a desk littered with busts of Napoleon was a short (5 ft. 2 in.), lame martinet named Emile Henry Gauvreau, a Connecticut-born newsman of French Canadian-Irish descent. His brilliance as a reporter and editor made him managing editor of the conservative old Hartford Courant at the age of 26. But the Courant was too slow for Gauvreau's new ideas. After it fired him, Macfadden lured him to launch the Graphic...
John Trumbull's great talent for mirroring the sunrise of the U.S. was made apparent last week by a big retrospective exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn. More than 100 of his works were assembled for the show, marking the bicentennial of Trumbull's birth in Lebanon, Conn. Together they testified that Trumbull's reputation deserves to grow, for it does not yet match his just deserts...
FORMER RAILROADER Buck Dumaine, who was ousted two years ago as president of New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (TIME, April 26, 1954), is going into new form of transportation. With group of Boston backers, Dumaine has picked up Richard S. Robie's Avis Rent-A-Car System, with 1,044 locations in U.S. and abroad and gross of $35 million a year...
Making the rounds of eight regional party pep gatherings from Santa Fe to Hartford, the Stevenson smile, quip and zip were at their captivating best (said Campaign Manager Jim Finnegan: the meetings were "little short of sensational"). At Manhattan's Ambassador Hotel, where 250 of the best-heeled Democrats turned out to pledge $350,000 to the fund, the candidate was in fine fettle ("I'm delighted to see a group so distinguished-and so solvent"). In Harrisburg, Pa. he laced his arms around the waists of a couple of "farmerette" Stevenson supporters, joshed away as photographers popped...