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...Captain William T. Cherry Jr. The Navy searched even harder. Next day the good news came: Rickenbacker and two of his crew were found floating in the vast Pacific some 600 miles north of Samoa. Three other crew members were on a tiny island. One, Sergeant Alexander Kaczmarczyk of Torrington, Conn., had died and been buried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Rickenbacker Safe | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

Robert P. Stephens 41, Jacksonville, Fila.; Edward N. Hartloy ocC, Lowell, Mass.; Charles A. Baker '43, Detroit, Mich.; Joseph P. Briscoll '41, Worcester, Mass.; Einar C. Palm '43, Torrington, Conn.; John B. Addington '40, East Aurora, N. Y.; Stanley M. Jacks '44, South Boston, Mass.; and Arthur Kinoy '40, New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Announces 23 More Scholarships | 11/26/1940 | See Source »

Anniversaries. The snug little town of Torrington, Conn., its 200th, which it celebrated with pageant, parade, a speech by Governor Raymond Earl Baldwin; the tight little isle of England, its 874th since invasion and defeat by William (of Normandy) the Conqueror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 21, 1940 | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Gustave Broberg, six-foot, one-inch Dartmouth forward from Torrington, Coun, dominates the 1940 Eastern Intercollegiate League all-star basketball team just as he outshone all rivals during the league season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Broberg, Bennett Named to E.I.L. All-Star Basketball Five | 3/15/1940 | See Source »

...collected 14 tallies against the Crimson in the 51 to 33 Dartmouth victory at Hanover in less than 15 minutes of play; for a long time the actual score was Broberg 10, Harvard 4. The 185 pound star from Torrington, Connecticut simply couldn't miss from any spot on the floor. He rang up six consecutive gift tosses that night without having one of them even touch the rim. From the free-throw line, nine out of ten is a bad average for Indian...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: What's His Number? | 2/7/1940 | See Source »

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