Word: opened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote the Rev. Theodore Bell of St. John's Chapel, Del Monte, Calif., in an open letter to the Episcopal Church Pension Fund...
...Edith, was weeping with excitement, and a friend was prematurely pounding him on the back and burbling, "Boy, you're the champ . . . what a homecoming Memphis will put on for you." Reporters were dispassionately batting out new leads about the biggest golf tournament of them all-the U.S. Open...
...better than par on the 18th, he gave a horde of newsmen one glum look: "It was that damned seventeenth that did it." Gary Middlecoff just grinned and paid off his $10 hedge-bet. With a $2,000 first prize and the prestige that goes with being U.S. Open golf champion, he could well afford it. Snead had tied for second place with North Carolinian Clayton Heafner...
...Movie Director Ed Sutherland, who will run it for NBC. Heading north to his 3,000-acre island off Mt. Desert in Maine, Lord carried with him the idea for another TV show. "I'm going to call it Sidewalks of New York," he said. "It might open just showing people's feet as they walk along, or maybe just their heads. And I'll show reflections of people's faces in store windows. It'll be an artistic thing. Like a French movie. But I haven't decided yet what the conflict will...
...sales (average: 4%), Penney's was still booming. In the first five months this year, its sales of $305 million were 5% higher than in 1948. Penney's was completing three new stores (in Houston, Sault Sainte Marie, Mich, and Midvale, Utah), expanding its store in Albuquerque, opening another one in Oklahoma City. Next January it will also open a big new store in Springfield, Mass., its 1,608th outlet...