Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring after seven years' absence, was now reported sitting on an Alp. The perch: Switzerland's sky-high Caux. The shelter: a former luxury hotel. Buchmanites had bought it and were aswarm there for a big postwar drive. Reported one of them happily: "The people of the neighborhood seem pleased...
This season, a year after World War II, nobody dares hope for such bounty. But big-time tennis has moved back into the big tent with what it has. At Forest Hills, Long Island, the shrine of U.S. tennis, even the kids in the neighborhood seemed to sense it last week. The little boys in the tennis-minded subway stop on the outskirts of New York City, who talk of tennis stars as other American boys discuss Joe Di Maggio and Ted Williams, scouted for good spots to shinny over the fence. The horseshoe-shaped concrete stadium...
Despite its Presbyterian tie, Marie Schultze has taken her clinic far above sect. Mothers in the 100% Catholic neighborhood never balk at going to the Protestant clinic. All but one of her doctors are Catholic, and when good Nurse Schultze got her medal, a Catholic priest made the introductory speech...
...inevitable result was a family quarrel the like of which the neighborhood had never seen or heard. The disturbance became so noisy that Grace finally ran for the cops, i.e. the Civil Aeronautics Board But CAB decided that the case really was not under its jurisdiction, and left them to fight...
...toddling three-year-old-spurred by her engineer-father, once a Chicago singer-she danced and sang in Texas mining towns. At six, she hit the road for a West Coast vaudeville circuit. She was only eleven when she crashed radio in San Antonio. There she organized neighborhood kids into the Little Texans Theater of the Air over WOAI. Peggy wrote and managed the program, used her vocal talents for little boy roles and sound effects...