Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrangling among his players, Southworth, never quite recovered from the death of his son in a wartime B-29 crash, quit with a nervous breakdown. By this year, his successor had been picked: ex-Braves Rightfielder Tommy Holmes, 34, who was under training as manager of the Braves' Hartford (Conn.) farm club. When Billy Southworth, at 58, finally retired for good, Holmes was ready to step in. Said he: "It just happened sooner than I thought it would...
...late Frederic C. Dumaine, ironhanded boss of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Frederic C. ("Buck") Dumaine Jr. referred to himself as "Dad's errand boy." Last week 48-year-old Buck Dumaine got a more impressive title. The New Haven's board of directors elected him to his late father's job as president and board chairman of the $429.6 million road...
ALDEN GIFFORD STEVENS JR. Hartford, Conn...
...than 100 candidates who knew their way around the Street. Last week, when the governors made their final choice for the $100,000 a year job, they picked a man who is a stranger to most Wall Streeters. The new stock-exchange head: George Keith Funston, 40, president of Hartford's 128-year-old Trinity College, a small Episcopal college little known outside Connecticut...
...work for the giant Amoskeag cotton mills (for $4 a week); within a few years he was operating in the fishing business, shipbuilding, watchmaking, steamship lines, truckmaking, banking. His biggest coup came in 1948, when he quietly bought enough stock to control the $428 million New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (which had kicked him off its board of directors in 1947), before its management knew what was happening. In taking over, Citizen Dumaine rode from Boston to New Haven in a day coach. But Railroad Baron Dumaine rode home in a Pullman compartment. Working up until...