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Died. William Jennings Miller, 51, wheel-chaired Republican Congressman from Connecticut (1939-41, 43-45, 47-49), who lost both legs after a World War I airplane smashup,† devoted much of his career to veterans' benefits; after long illness; in Wethersfield, Conn...
...Conditioning. In Wethersfield, Conn., burglars, bothered by the heat, succeeded in cracking a 200-lb. grocery store safe after they had moved it into the cooler...
...Washington, B.C., a New York Congressman got a letter from a constituent who complained that his corporal always woke up the whole hut when he had to rouse one soldier. "Sir," concluded the constituent, "I would like to have someone do something about him." Autobiographer. In Wethersfield, Conn., Nicholas A. Rossi, a writer of mur der mysteries, was executed for murder...
...Author. Born in Wethersfield, Conn., in 1863, tall, robust, blue-eyed Charles McLean Andrews says that his life could be of interest to none, hopes his writings may be. The son of a minister, descended from one of the first New Haven settlers whose colony he has studied, he graduated from Trinity College (Hartford) at 21, published his first book, The River Towns' of Connecticut at 26 while associate professor of history at Bryn Mawr, married six years later, taught at Johns Hopkins before he became Farnum Professor of American History at Yale in 1910. In his office...
...yarn as first printed in the Herald gave Wethersfield, about 20 miles from Perry where there is a beaver dam, as the residence of Herman Strutter, but as the story was relayed Wethersfield was deleted and the Perry date line stuck...