Word: pa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students who roll into town boasting of new driving endurance records -26 hours from Ohio State, 27 from Carlisle, Pa.'s Dickinson College-are too buoyant and too broke to worry about being shut out of hotspots. They require only beer and the beach. "It's not that we drink so much," one Notre Dame senior explained sudsily. "It's just that we drink all the time." Cops check identification as carefully as they can, but there were few students in the last fortnight who did not have some sort of paper asserting that they were...
...Suddenly finding his putting touch and scoring five birdies on the last six holes, Art Wall Jr., saturnine, 35-year-old golf pro from Pocono Manor, Pa. who has been the hottest golfer on the early spring circuit, came from nowhere in the final round of the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga. He overhauled the leaders with a six-under-par final round of 66. Arnold Palmer, last year's Masters champion, who tied for the lead with Canada's Stan Leonard at the end of the third round, triple-bogied the treacherous twelfth hole, narrowly missed...
Died. Hiram Haney Parke, 85, art appraiser and auctioneer who in 1937 co-founded Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries, which became the U.S.'s largest auction house, handling paintings, books, furniture, tapestries, stamps, etc.; in Mt. Airy, Pa. Parke brought down his hammer on some of the most grandiose sales in art history. Maintaining an air of disinterested opulence, he could up bids hundreds of dollars with a shrewdly timed word, thousands with a sentence. In 1928 he sold Gainsborough's The Harvest Wagon to Lord Duveen for $360,000, also peddled such miscellaneous treasures...
Thus equipped, the ringleaders phoned appointed contacts in U.S. cities-Chicago, Detroit, Portland (Ore.), Philadelphia, Harrisburg (Pa.), Minneapolis-fed them the winning answers. Many of the participants were on the fringes of the entertainment business; Dingman was the only one with a newspaper connection. Often, time zones worked for the swindle; e.g., the phony London bank got its answers at least two hours before U.S. newspapers on the West Coast...
Thirty years ago a middle-aged grocer named Donald Shapiro of Scranton, Pa. signed up with a group to whom his rabbi was giving a night course in the Talmud-the vast accretion of text and commentary that forms the body of Jewish law. They studied hard-an hour a night, six nights a week. This week, after about 9,000 hours, retired Grocer Shapiro, 78, completed the course...