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...Earl of Warwick's fat parcel of New World land known as Connecticut turned out to be fatter than anyone suspected back in 1630. The Earl's Crown charter spoke with magnificent vagueness of a strip 40 leagues wide extending "throughout all the main lands . . . from the western [Atlantic] ocean to the South Seas [the Pacific]. A century and a half later, with a sound respect for geography and the realities of U.S. politics, Connecticut bowed to congressional insistence and ceded her western claims, with one exception. The exception was the Western Reserve, a 120-mile strip bordering...
...James Warwick play opened on Broadway in 1935, ran for 119 performances, was later revived. The 1939 Columbia movie starred Chester Morris and Ralph Bellamy...
...read for literary value, this book soon resembles a Coney Island museum of horrors, in which are displayed the works of such literary curiosities as Vicki Baum and Warwick Deeping, such terrible stuff as Michael Arlen's green-plush patter about the smarter set and Vina Delmar's teary tribute to the "bad girl...
...Vandenberg. But now the coalition strategy was for each man to stand firm. Each maintained that he could never hold certain states pledged to him if he threw his support to some other man. What about Warren? Said Duff, who was living in a suite at the Hotel Warwick across from Warren: "The governor of California seems to be rooted in concrete...
...Mass. State Class "C" Downhill, Warwick, Mass...