Word: middletowners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Middletown, Conn...
Divorced. By Perry Hale, oldtime Yale footballer (All-America. 1900) who was accidentally blinded some 25 years ago: Anne Howarth Geary Hale, who married him in 1921, lived with him intermittently for nine years; in Middletown, Conn. Grounds: desertion...
...kept a performance chart on himself ever since he was a cub reporter on the New York Sun. Graphing his status from year to year, he projected his curve upward to assistant on the city desk of the New York Herald Tribune, upward to the general managership of the Middletown (N. Y.) Times Herald, upward to the New York World-Telegram where he became an expert on municipal government and banking, conducted an expose of veterans' relief irregularities which helped that Scripps-Howard paper win the 1932 Pulitzer Prize, furnished material for a book called Tattered Banners...
Thus began a newsworthy document which President James Lukens McConaughy last week sent to the two dozen Jewish undergraduates of Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn. Set forth were prime facts & figures about medical schools, Jews and Gentiles...
...stranger, a vibrant, breathing, fascinating pageant to him who knows and loves this city. As a Christmas present it provides an easy answer to any problematic cases. It will be well-thumbed on glass-topped tables in penthouse apartments, in cozy, warm, overfurnished rooms in Middletown, in prim maidenly parlors on Beacon Street: for varying reasons, it is true, but with undiminished interest...