Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover story on John and George Hartford of the A. & P. stores (TIME, Nov. 13, 1950). Researcher Fremd and writer managed to arrange for an interview that was scheduled for 30 minutes; it lasted some five hours. There was also a tour of an A. & P. store in New Rochelle, N.Y. with John Hartford ("He was wonderful; I got 30 pages of quotes including his dismay at the high cost of radishes") and an invitation to tour the Hartford country place in Valhalla, N.Y. The Valhalla tour was made with "a magnificent horse drawing a real fringe-topped surrey." After...
Take for instance my recent experience with an unregistered car. Seems that Connecticut cars have to be registered by March 1; I, driving a borrowed car, knew nothing about it. But the Hartford police got me just before I could make a safe getaway into Massachusetts...
...station was full of Hartford's finest, milling about the assignment desk, waiting their chance to go out and get the registration criminals. They all smiled knowingly when their successful compatriot came in and led me into the Captain's office...
Lulu Perez, carried away by the unexpectedly easy victory, wept for joy, and his handlers covered his head with a towel for fear the fans would think their man a softie. The crowd, many of them from Willie's home town of Hartford, Conn., booed and jeered the champ, cracked that Willie had given far less than his all. New York Boxing Commissioner Robert Christenberry had no patience with such speculation: "Any evil talk is a slur on a once-great fighter who took the beating of his life. The result speaks for itself. This...
...evening's closest contest, Christopher A. Smith '55 of Lowell House and West. Hartford, Conn., took the post of secretary from Burton Berkley '55, 35 to 28, as the minority nomination speeches began to become more vehement. The organization's rule was openly challenged in the nominations for treasurer, but its candidate, John S. Luckstone 2L of Cambridge was elected anyway. One write-in vote for Balzotti was received...