Word: parked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifth Avenue, with a fine view of Central Park across the street, sits a 66-room red brick Georgian mansion, one of the largest and most lavish houses in New York City. Across the street, the late Banker Otto Kahn's Florentine stone palace is now the Sacred Heart Convent for girls; a block up Fifth Avenue stands Banker Felix Warburg's six-story home: it is now the Jewish Museum. Farther down Fifth Avenue, workmen this week started tearing down Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan's ornate 30-room mansion...
Florida's Tropical Park had cut purses and pared expenses to keep from finishing its recent meeting in the red. Seeing the handwriting on the wall, rich and prosperous Pimlico announced that the value of the Preakness would be lowered from $100,000 to $75,000 this spring; Belmont Park had done likewise with its Belmont Stakes (leaving the Kentucky Derby the only $100,000 gem in racing's Triple Crown...
Pride in Their Park. In a glassed-in cupola atop Santa Anita's grandstand sat a man with a different view. Stone-faced Charles H. Strub (rhymes with rube), 64, built Santa Anita, bossed it, drew down $334,000 in salary and bonuses in 1948. Last week, he put on his usual $50,000 weekend race, the Santa Margarita Handicap (won by Lurline B, a 30-to-1 shot). This week, the first of his three $100,000 races, the Maturity Stakes, would...
...Strub works on the theory that nothing should be painful for his patrons. There is not one "Keep Off the Grass" sign at Santa Anita. Says Doc, who fancies himself as public benefactor and administrator: "Our customers appreciate beauty enough not to destroy it. They have pride in their park." For those who like to sunbathe, Doc provides benches...
...several years a group of 15 private schools near the most fashionable part of Manhattan's Park Avenue has held an annual series of nondenominational vesper services. At the first of this year's services, held in the Episcopal St. James' Church, the Rev. Laurance I. Neale of the Unitarian Church of All Souls was one of the officiating clergymen. To one Protestant prelate this was carrying Protestant unity a little too far. Last week, retired Episcopal Bishop William T. Manning, 82, took sharp note of it in a letter to two New York newspapers...