Word: parked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is the second novel by Manhattan Glamor-Matron Nancy (The Manatee) Bruff, who is the wife of a Wall Street investment counsel. She tried to do some writing in Connecticut, but the birds "screaming on the windowsills" drove her back to Park Avenue. She finished Cider from Eden in a maid's room. It reads as though it had been started in a high-school study hall and completed in a girls' locker room. Miss Bruff used to have Publicity Man Russell Birdwell do her advertising, but no more. "I have had enough personal publicity," she explains...
CHARLES H. BLAKESLEE Oak Park...
...looked like a gibbet, nailed to the white railing fence of the newly opened Branchdale Racing Park near Holly Hill. A noose dangled from it, well out over the dirt track. Few of the well-dressed South Carolinians in the cars lining the rail were old enough to recognize it. It was a truss for goose pulling...
Meanwhile, crowded into green Argentine Army tents in Buenos Aires' waterfront park, they stared at the glittering skyline, at the bulging grain elevators, and the ships from half the world loading with rich Argentine produce. Patiently they bore the midsummer heat (Paraguay would be hotter), queued for food, washed themselves at one open hydrant, spoke in Plattdeutsch of husbands, sons and brothers not yet given up for lost. Sometimes at night a few gathered around an accordion to sing "Now thank we all our God, with hearts and hands and voices...
...half-dozen times, the morning of the race, Horse Trainer Jimmy Jones went out to test Hialeah Park's dry but spongy racing strip. Finally he decided that the best place was not along the rail, but about 15 feet out from...