Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heir Huntington Hartford simply won't take no for an answer. For six years now he's been trying to give New York City $500,000 for an outdoor café in Central Park. And the city keeps bouncing his scheme. A couple of weeks ago, he even offered $1,000,000 to build public swimming pools in Negro areas if City Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving would accept the café. "Irresponsible philanthropy!" roared Hoving. "Hartford is trying to manipulate potentially dangerous areas for his own end, but he has failed." With a rap like that, Hunt...
...countless emergencies, the pay telephone is the one way to reach help. But the pay phone is mute and deaf until it has been fed its dime. To clear the line, Southern New England Telephone Co. is converting its pay telephones in Hartford so that the caller can get the operator without a coin...
...charity drive; almost every night, two groups get to gether for bowling matches or common meetings. In Madison, Wis., for example, the Knights and the Shriners co-sponsored a charity bazaar. In Tacoma, Wash., Columbians and Shriners gathered for what one ecumenical enthusiast called "a real bash." And in Hartford, Conn., the Knights have joined with the Masons and B'nai B'rith to form a brotherhood committee rep resenting a combined membership of 100,000. Says Supreme Knight John W. McDevitt, national head of the Catholic organization: "It's high time for the dissipation...
...ANGELES. Theater Group. At U.C.L.A.'s Schoenberg Hall: The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter, through Aug. 28; The Flies, by Jean-Paul Sartre, Sept. 6-Oct. 9. Association of Producing Artists. At the Huntington Hartford Theater: Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal, starring Helen Hayes and Melvyn Douglas, Aug. 8-13; George Kaufman and Moss Hart's You Can't Take It With You, Aug. 15-20; Luigi Pirandello's Right You Are If You Think You Are, Aug. 22-27. At the Greek Theater: an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy...
Near the dining room he plopped the fruits down, symbolically, on a pile of Crimsons. Then he hacked at the melons with a real machete which he had used last summer while collecting medicinal plants along the Amason. Like all true machetes, it was manufactured in Hartford, Conn...