Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back during the dusty, tire-patching era of the Pope-Hartford and the Apperson Jackrabbit, the average U.S. citizen seldom got behind an automobile wheel without secretly feeling a little like a man climbing aboard a racing camel or a Mallet locomotive. In the years since, he has gone right on believing that only his innate coolness, intelligence and mechanical aptitude have enabled him to remain the master of the gas buggy. But last week Northwestern University's Traffic Institute had news...
Trinity College (Hartford, Conn...
...first super toll-highway, and the new $250 million, 118-mile New Jersey Turnpike (TIME, Aug. 27). With both of these, after a 35-mile Philadelphia bypass links them, the Ohio Turnpike will provide a super-highway route (see map) enabling motorists to drive all the way from Hartford, Conn, to Indiana, at high speeds, with few toll stops and no traffic lights. When additional New England toll roads are completed interlinked highways will reach from Portland, Me. to Chesapeake Bay and Washington...
Citation: "Practicing attorney in this city and vice president of an insurance company in Hartford, this successful man of affairs has written some of the most distinguished poetry of our day . . . one of the few men of our time who has been outstanding in his ability to unite the two worlds of imagination and fact...
...Holmes was close to being an idol. A sure hand in the field and a solid hitter (lifetime batting average: .303), Holmes hung up his playing glove at the end of the 1950 season. Last year he started out on a managerial career for the Brave farm club in Hartford, Conn., and loyal Brave fans confidently expected that he would soon be back in Boston...