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...Epstein. They had been cast in secrecy in a London foundry so that Philadelphians would get first look at the newest adornment to their city: a group of five bronze figures, representing "Social Consciousness," to stand as a part of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park...
...wasn't a bad upbringing that sweetened Happy's temper. Although his parents were immigrants from Central Africa, Happy himself was born in the exclusive Fairmount Park district of Philadelphia on July 7, 1918. He came to Boston on a wave of hippo enthusiasm led by the Post, which collected subscriptions for him. On June 24, 1922 he arrived at Franklin Park, was dubbed "Happy" by Mrs. James Curley and then ceremoniously installed in what is now the seal tank of the Zoo. Since that triumphant day, though, his path trailed steadily downward. When he first came, photographers from...
From the days of the dime novel through the era of soap opera, U.S. romantics have dreamed of inheriting an estate and a title in Great Britain. Early this year the dream came true for 60-year-old Adrian Ivor Dunbar, a handyman from Upper Fairmount, Md. Adrian left England more than 40 years ago, made his way to the U.S. in slow stages via Australia and Canada, married a comely widow, fathered two sons (both now in the U.S. Army) and in 1939 became a U.S. citizen. Last January, at the deaths of two cousins whom he had never...
Without help from either official Roman Catholic sources or Philadelphia newspapers, word of the vision got around. Crowds of people began to gather in Fairmount Park, many of them invalids praying for a cure. Rosaries, holy pictures and photographs were left hanging on the bush out of which, the teen-agers said, the Virgin had appeared...
...last Sunday of October, after the Philadelphia press and radio had made restrained mention of the story, a crowd of 50.000 flowed into Fairmount Park. Only a few claimed to see anything unusual, and most of their stories tended to conflict. Some of the visitors left money offerings ($2,300 so far). Park po lice took charge of the money temporarily, not knowing quite what to do with it. Last week, though diminished, crowds were still drifting into the park. The office of Philadelphia's Archbishop John F. O'Hara had no comment to make on the reported...