Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JEAN DE MEO New Haven, Conn...
...optimistic have already lowered their sights. "We had a terrific reception to the new models," says John Bugmire, general manager of Atlanta's Nalley Chevrolet. "This shortage hurts badly." Pontiac Dealer A. E. England of Hollywood, Calif, said that "You can't firm an order when you haven't got a model to show," and Irving Esserman of Chicago's Esserman Motor Sales, a large Chrysler-Plymouth dealer, said flatly that "We're being strangled by the shortage of cars. We can't make delivery commitments, and we're losing business...
RAILROAD MERGER is under discussion by five New England roads: Bangor & Aroostook, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, Rutland Railway, New York, New Haven & Hartford. They want to cut costs of parallel operations, set up ninth biggest U.S. road with some 5,300 miles of track, $900 million of assets...
...initiations remain, all the fun of joining a Yale fraternity has not vanished. The initiation ceremonies are generally divided into two evenings, the "informals," and the "formals." Whereas these rituals vary from frat to frat, or rather from fraternity to fraternity (the word "frat" is considered at New Haven to have an unfortunate midwestern flavor), a pledge who enjoyed the following informal would not feel especially distinguished...
...their fraternities rest on liquid foundations and by the sinister descriptions of their alumni, it is still necessary to ask why the institutions exist. The answer seems to be that in their college system there is nowhere else for the Yalies to drink and be social. As one New Haven collegian is quoted in his press as saying, "I joined a fraternity because I couldn't fit a bar in my room." Other reasons seem to be prestige, ambition and the desire subsequently join to a secret society...