Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philadelphia, Pa...
Pool shark is a title distasteful to most women. But Ruth ("Lefty") McGinnis, 30-year-old daughter of a Honesdale, Pa. barber, is proud of her ability with a cue. When she was only ten, little Ruthie could pocket 15 balls in succession,, barnstormed with Champion Ralph Greenleaf as an "added attraction" to his act. A few years ago, during an exhibition on a substandard table (4½ by 9), Miss McGinnis made a run of 128. World's record on a standard table...
...late Joseph Pickett, a New Hope, Pa. country-fair concessionaire and shooting-gallery impresario, who specialized in toylike rural landscapes...
Last week WPB took a hand. Its conservation division sent four men to Butler, Pa., home of an American Rolling Mills plant which has had to shut four of its ten furnaces. They made a tour of jalopy graveyards to see what they could find...
...late Charles M. Schwab's 27-room mansion in Bethlehem, Pa. went on the auction block, drew one bid: $5,000. Administrators of the estate declined, decided to try again later...