Word: stamford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This spirit is perhaps best shown in rooting. Rooting for a team may be a casual act for an Easterner, but Californians take their cheering seriously. The supreme example of this is the West coast's Big Game--Stamford vs. California. These rivals from different sides of San Francisco Bay have been slugging it out with an intensity matched only by the Harvard-Yale tradition. But the Eastern rivalry is merely a contest between teams; out West, the whole school joins in the fray...
Died. Henry Thacker Burleigh, 82, Negro baritone who composed (or arranged) more than 50 spirituals (Deep River; Go Down, Moses) and some 200 songs, acquainted Antonin Dvorak with Negro folk music that became thematic material for his symphony From the New World; in Stamford, Conn...
Zatrzymac. In Stamford, England, Jan Rogowski, accused of dangerous driving, explained to the court: "I saw the 'Halt' sign, but by the time I had translated the word into my own language [zatrzymac, Polish for halt], I was in the middle of the crossroad and had a collision...
Died. Frederic Collin Walcott, 80, onetime Republican Senator from Connecticut (1929-35); after long illness; in Stamford, Conn. A longtime friend of Herbert Hoover (he was Hoover's aide in the World War I European food relief program) and an ardent wildlife conservationist (he authored the federal duck stamp bill to finance conservation measures), Senator Walcott helped write the law which...
After a five-day stand here, the show will go on the road. A tentative itinerary includes Hartford, Connecticut; Stamford, Connecticut; New York; Philadelphia; Poughkeepsie, New York; Buffalo, New York, Rochester, New York; Syracuse, New York; and Springfield. The show will play in Providence, Rhode island; and Worcester. The Pudding may also get the show on television...