Word: pa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Allentown, Pa...
...swung the deal got his first taste of show business as a boy in Scottdale, Pa., where his father was part owner of the town's two theaters. Leonard Goldenson wanted to get into the movie industry on finishing Harvard Law School in 1930, but got turned down at Paramount's front door. He came in through the back, as a lawyer, when he was hired to reorganize Paramount's New England division. Paramount made him assistant operations boss, put him in charge of theaters in 1941. Last year, when Paramount's theater and picture-making...
...Thirteen passengers were killed, 103 injured in 1947 when the Red Arrow jumped the tracks on Bennington Curve near Altoona, Pa. Total casualties from wrecks on the Pennsylvania Railroad in the past 18 months: 123 dead, 931 injured...
...porch on the Old Fort Inn overlooks the ocean, but the view was partly blocked by the fine old trees on the summer estates belonging to George A. Elliott Jr. of Wilmington, Del. and Mrs. Marion Clapp Collin of Sewickley, Pa. A year ago, a hotel employee climbed the stone wall bordering the estates, cut down five tall spruces on Elliott's property, a fine twin white birch and three maples on Mrs. Collin's property. For good measure, he lopped the branches off quite a few pines and fir trees to clear the view...
...Massachusetts Bar Association petitioned the state supreme court to "disbar, censure or suspend" Alger Hiss, disbarred in New York last year, and now in Lewisburg, Pa. prison serving a five-year sentence for perjury...