Word: pa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bishops & Orchids. By the time loyal Bill Dunnigan was through giving the little girl a big funeral, her drab birthplace, Coaltown, Pa., was jammed with bishops, Hollywood producers, newspapermen, sobbing atheists, tender rabbis. Orchids poured in from the greenhouses of the rich; the local miner's union donated a handmade altar. Even St. Michael ("the saint who took on Kid Lucifer and put him down and out for the full count") came across with a couple of helpful miracles, and the corpse's ghost made several personal appearances, clad in "a faded blue dress...
Vernfield, Pa...
...Iron Bars . . . In Doylestown, Pa., Prisoner Robert Henderson broke out of solitary, smashed through a steel mesh grating, broke a closely leaded window, squeezed his 170 lbs. between two iron bars, scaled a 10-ft. fence, escaped over a 32-ft. wall...
...thing, he is living in Paris. For another, he admits that he likes the place. He lived there for 30 years before World War II, and wouldn't mind living there the rest of his life. He has a stone-and-wood workshop in Lahaska, in Bucks County, Pa., a region thickly settled by Broadway wits and literary wights; but his four-story, pink stucco Paris house has two studios. And he likes the talk on Paris' left bank. Last week he was shamelessly spending his time reading dusty old letters from Arnold Bennett and Gertrude Stein...
Last week Tsugu-no-Miya Akihito ("The Prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence") learned the name of his new tutor: Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining of Philadelphia, Pa. Twelve-year-old* Akihito will meet Mrs. Vining some time this fall when she flies to Japan for her first visit and a year's stay. She will be given a small salary, a house, a car and servants...