Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week to catch his slick Texas slang and catgut twang. Since April Dean has charmed early risers away from Dave Garroway's Today with his easy ways, his oleaginous grin, and a no-ulcer format thickly populated with bosomy fiddlers. Although his corn is off an aged cob ("Haven't had so much fun since the old cow had twins"), Dean is, in the words of an associate, "photogenic, amiable, happy-go-lucky and a nipple feeder-that is, he knows little outside his music." Says his manager, Connie B. Gay, who is the chief impresario of country...
...work in the world" and ought not to be missed. The drive from Harvard Square to the air-conditioned Stratford Theatre at legal speeds takes just a little over three hours if one uses the new Massachusetts Turnpike and takes Exit 53 from the Wilbur Cross Parkway after New Haven. And the curtain always rises...
...Outs. Motto in mind, Dick Lee unveiled last week plans for an even bigger facelift: a mammoth $85 million, five-year downtown project drastically upgrading 96 blighted acres off New Haven's historic Green. Private investors, including Manhattan Real-Estate Broker Roger Stevens (whose past deals included the purchase of the Empire State Building), will replace century-old structures with a glistening, 18-story hotel-office building, new retail stores and office space. The Federal Government has earmarked $39 million for land purchases and clearance. Out of the city funds will come $7,000,000 for parking facilities...
...epitomizes a long-needed new look in U.S. city government. Says he: "The old type mayor was a ceremonial figure, concerned with marriages, wakes, strawberry festivals, ribbon-cutting. Today a mayor has to be an administrator and planner." A shipping clerk's son, Lee grew up in New Haven's Irish 17th Ward, after high school cut his political teeth covering city hall for the Journal-Courier. A peptic ulcer gave him an Army medical discharge in World War II; he went to Yale not as a student but as publicity director in 1943, four times handily...
...them to death, and threw the bodies over the sea wall to the rocks 40 feet below. Then they lifted the Ford and dropped it over the cliff after them. Police, stoically watching this performance, brushed aside a protest by foreign newsmen that they stop the slaughter, said: "We haven't received orders." A French paratroop major who tried to intervene was slapped in the face by a uniformed Territorial private. Dazed and humiliated, the officer stumbled away, muttering: "Are these people worth saving...