Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Jerome Dunstan Travers, 64, top golfer in the pre-Bobby Jones era, four times National Amateur champion (in 1907, '08, '12 and '13), National Open champion in 1915; of a coronary occlusion; in East Hartford, Conn...
FLETCHER D. PARKER Immanuel Congregational Church Hartford, Conn...
Died. Katharine Houghton Hepburn, 73, mother of Actress Katharine Hepburn, known in her own right for her crusades for woman suffrage and birth control; of cerebral thrombosis; in Hartford, Conn...
...Today in Hartford the anti-discrimination bills face defeat, not because of university opposition but because of religious pressure. In 1945 and 1949 stronger bills went down to defeat in Connecticut, including one saying that a school would lose its tax exemption if charges of discrimination were found valid...
...David Bradley is a physician (not a physicist) who attended the Bikini atom-bomb tests in 1946 and wrote the atomic scare-book, No Place to Hide. Last week, more scared than ever, he told an audience at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, that one of the recent atomic explosions in Nevada was 500 times more powerful than a conventional (or Model-T) Abomb. Therefore, reasoned Bradley, it must have been a hydrogen bomb. He based both premise and conclusion on the fact that the bomb broke windows in Las Vegas, nearly ten times farther from the explosion than...