Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rain of protest has drummed against the National Council of Churches ever since its Fifth World Order Study Conference in Cleveland advocated recognition of Red China and admission to the U.N. (TIME, Dec. 1) In Hartford, Conn, last week, before a meeting of the policymaking General Board, National Council President Dr. Edwin T. (for Theodore) Dahlberg stiffly rose to answer the critics. Actually he sidestepped them by defending the church's right to take a stand on international issues, rather than specifically commenting on the China stand. Said he: "The church must in a sense function as the conscience...
...expertly curbed his dark blue Jaguar outside Mason Hall, on the University of Michigan campus. Inside, 20 undergraduate journalists had mustered for his course on editorial writing. Thus last week, after 43 years of newspapering, began a new career for Carl E. Lindstrom, 62, retired executive editor of the Hartford. Conn. Times (circ. 120,161), and a discerning lifelong critic of the U.S. press...
...Wallace, Mich. Lutheran minister, Carl Lindstrom aspired to be a concert pianist, gave that up as a boy when a dislocation permanently stiffened one arm. He left Beloit College for economic reasons, after one year, wandered through jobs on small-town papers to the Hartford Times in 1917 as a copyreader. A self-taught linguist, Lindstrom makes nightly entries in diaries in six languages, frequently translates news stories into Italian, French, German, Spanish or Swedish just for the exercise. He reads multilingually and voraciously-75 books a year. He takes pride in a connoisseur's cellar of fine wines...
...varsity fencers overpowered a weak Trinity squad, 16 to 11, yesterday at Hartford, Conn. Using a predominantly second-string team, the Crimson outclassed its opponents in a meet prolonged by scoring difficulties...
Varsity fencers are favored in their match with Trinity College in Hartford, conn., at 4 p.m. this afternoon. The second team will enter the contest with a record of two wins and no losses...