Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...platform of Hartford's Bushnell Memorial Hall during the 1958 Connecticut Democratic convention, State Chairman John Bailey snapped over his shoulder to an aide: "Get Kowalski." The aide turned to a man standing alongside...
Last week the nation's first full-scale experiment in pay TV got under way over station WHCT in Hartford, Conn. Fee-vee is potentially television at its best. In theory, the viewer pays a nominal sum for first-run movies, live Broadway plays, sports events, opera, ballet-all uninterrupted by commercials...
Because of an eleventh-hour scramble, last week's opening splash in Hartford went somewhat kerplunk. First program was the movie version of Sunrise at Campobello (viewing price: $1), which has already made the rounds of the country's movie theaters and is well along on its journey from Broadway's Palace to The Late Show. Other first-week films include One-Eyed Jacks, Splendor in the Grass and Breakfast at Tiffany's. But programming should improve. Hartford's pay viewers will get a chance to see Warner Brothers' still unreleased The Music...
WHCT plans to broadcast between 20 and 40 hours of pay programs each week, and the experiment will be closely watched by interested broadcasters and hopeful viewers all over the U.S. There is even something interesting for nonsubscribers in Hartford. If they happen to turn on the channel, they see an attractively patterned, cubist tessellation of arms, torsos, scattered heads and errant thighs. It might well have been borrowed from Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...Hartford's sweltering red brick Bushnell Memorial Hall, delegates fidgeted and fussed. At 1:34 in the morning, after 10 hr. and 49 min. and eight roll calls, Connecticut Republicans finally selected Insurance Executive John Alsop as their candidate for Governor. Next day, tired and irritable, they took just one decisive muster to smash the comeback attempt of former Governor-Diplomat John Davis Lodge, who wanted to be their nominee for the U.S. Senate...