Word: noroton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maine) Playmakers, who brashly announced that they would have a Broadway hit this fall -Take a Treaty, a "political comedy" by "an official connected with the United Nations"; 2) The New York 54th Street Theater Company, a nonprofit experimental playhouse which announced an eight-week classic repertory season in Noroton, Conn, (first bill: Moliere's Georges Dandin and Goldoni's Mistress of the Inn); 3) Griffin Productions, most surprising-and-most commercial-of the three...
Have You Got Love or Family Troubles? From a 187-year-old, cream-colored Colonial house called "Dutch Oven" (it was once a tearoom by that name) at Noroton, Conn., went out hundreds of copies of this letter last week. The printed signature: "Your Sincere Friends in LIFE-STUDY FELLOWSHIP"-a nonsectarian organization which has no church, no groups of people meeting together any where, but which dispenses its philosophy ("the practical application of Christian principles to the problems of modern living . . .") solely through the mail...
...Executive Officer, were the first two Naval officers to report to Harvard to make preparations for setting up the school. They were followed here that same month, June, 1942, by Lieut. C. F. Brengartner, Lieut. G. F. Welker, and ten Communications Reserve graduates from the Naval Training School (Communications), Noroton, Connecticut. On July 1, 1942, twelve Annapolis graduates were assigned here temporarily to teach in- doctrination...
...which smart, rich theater chain men John and Barney Balaban (of Balaban & Katz) offered free to the Navy, a week after Pearl Harbor. After 90 days at W9XBK (which continues to televise for Chicago's 200 receivers), Loop sailors will move on to advanced schools near Washington, at Noroton Heights, Conn., or San Francisco...
When a grinning, 19-year-old Norwegian named Torger Tokle landed in Manhattan two years ago, he was met by his older brother, Kyrre, who drove him to his farm in Noroton, Conn. Next day, Brother Kyrre was to compete in a ski-jumping meet at nearby Bear Mountain Park. "I yump too," said Torger. Yump he did-and broke the hill record...