Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meadville, Pa...
...seven, Willie Mosconi was wan and trigger-tempered. In South Philadelphia he was famed as a deadly accurate pool shooter. Many an afternoon he shuffled into his father's barber shop and heard his Pa say: "Willie, there's a man in the back room who thinks he's better than you." Willie would grab a cue and go to work-with Pa betting as high as $100 on his boy. Business was brisk, and Willie got better with...
...friend, recalling Stoddard's boyhood in Carbondale, Pa., has called him "one of the finest by-products of the anthracite industry." When gregarious George was a Penn State undergraduate, the only way his mother knew how many visiting fraternity brothers would be down for breakfast during vacations was to count the strange hats on the hall tree...
...Congressman Kunkel electrifies the Republican women of Dauphin County (Pa.). And Congressman Kunkel has never flinched when faced with masses of his female constituents in the grip of emotion. He has faced them before. Last week he faced them again. He had invited the Co-operative Republican Ladies of the Dauphin County Councils to come to Washington for lunch (at $2.50 a plate) at the Statler. Eight hundred joyfully accepted. They arrived on a special train, surged out, straightened their Kunkel ribbons, dabbed at their noses, spied Congressman Kunkel standing with his back to a Union Station pillar. They charged...
Married. Anne Kaufman, 22, daughter of Playwright George (The Man Who Came to Dinner) Kaufman; and Bruce D. Colen, 23, manuscript reader for Publishers Simon & Schuster; she for the second time, he for the first; in Bucks County, Pa...