Word: elms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Follow route 1 (North Main Street) to the middle of Providence, then take Waterman Street that branches off to the left. At Wayland Square, bear left around the circle to Angel Street and follow Elm Grove Avenue (first right) to the Stadium. List of events is on page...
Three days before he was nominated, Adlai Stevenson went to earth at the William McCormick Blair home on Chicago's most aristocratic lane, elm-shrouded Astor Street. What happened after that was enough to make Gold Coast matrons stare as they strolled by with their neatly clipped poodles and haughty Chihuahuas...
...begin. ¶ Democratic Nominee Adlai Stevenson, emerging from the Astor Street house where he had waited out the convention's decision. For three days a modern journalistic army had bivouacked in the quiet, aristocratic street, setting up a battery of portable telephones and mobile TV transmitters, festooning the elm trees with dangling cables, lights, microphones and reflectors (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The result, for the TV audience at least, was well worth it: the contrasting shadows and harsh glare of mobile television lights produced the dramatic background effects of a first-rate documentary...
...contended that Protestantism would soon die. The other, enraged, thrust his walking stick into the ground, shouting, "As certainly as this stick shall take root and grow into a tree, so also will Luther's faith remain." The stick, the story goes, grew into the 120-ft. Luther Elm...
...first postwar years, Pastor Theodor Distelmann, holding services in the ruins of the Magnuskirche, sadly wondered where the money to rebuild his church would come from. His old friend, Pastor Alfred Herrnbrodt, thought he knew a way to get some. In 1949, when the 400-year-old "Luther Elm" on Pastor Herrnbrodt's property died, the pastor commissioned a woodcarver to make 30,000 small "Luther roses" and 500 "Luther plaques" out of the tree, which was rich in Lutheran tradition.* Sale of the mementos (plus a recently granted West German government subsidy) should bring in enough to meet...