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Last week, in a special election, young Joseph E. Talbot, compensation commissioner of Naugatuck, liberal, pro-Willkie Republican, carried the district, 23,278-to-19,663. Republican editors called it a straw in the wind, pointed out that Republican Congressional candidates have won two out of three special elections (in Connecticut, Colorado and Massachusetts), since Dec. 7. But Connecticut people, Democrats and Republicans alike, did not get overly excited. Said the Democratic chairman: "Talbot is a popular fellow." Said the Republican: "This election shows that the representative system of government still functions...
HELEN MARGARET OLSON Naugatuck, Conn...
...Connecticut apple orchard at the foot of Naugatuck's Elm Street, ground was broken for U.S. Rubber Co.'s new $2,750,000 synthetic rubber plant. This is the first of four plants planned by Defense Plant Corp., which handles the financing, leaves the management to the companies. The other plants will be run by Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone. The U.S. Rubber plant when completed in about a year will have an annual capacity of 10,000 long tons-a little more than 1% of the 800,000 tons that the U.S. now consumes annually...
Tall, twittering Gilbert Adrian began to draw shortly after he was born 37 years ago, the son of a Naugatuck, Conn, milliner. His first success, a costume designed for his companion at a Paris ball, caught the eye of guest Irving Berlin, got Adrian a job dressing the Second Music Box Revue. Rudolph Valentino's wife, Natacha Rambova, took him from Broadway to Hollywood to make her husband's clothes, and Adrian has been dressing movie folk ever since. At M. G. M. he inhabits an oyster-white office, works furiously chewing gum, deep in an over stuffed...
...recipienin are Te-k'un Cheng 1G, of Kulangan, Amoy, China; John IL, Cox 1G, of Naugatuck, Cohn.; James It, Hightower 2G, of Canton, China; Yueh-hwa Lin 2G, of Foochow, China; Bu-yu Teng 1G, of Hunan, China; and Arthur F. Wright 2G, of Portland...