Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wimbledon, wearing a new crew haircut (he once used ribbons to tie up his blond thatch), Sweden's Lennart Bergelin, 23, tore into top-seeded Frank Parker. It produced the tennis upset of the year. Down went Parker, in five sets. But Bergelin's new look wasn't enough to get him by hard-hitting Bob Falkenburg in the quarterfinals. The Swede fell before Falkenburg's big serve...
...American Association of University Professors was studying charges that faculty members had been fired for pro-Wallace activity at the University of Georgia, the University of Miami, and Evansville (Ind.) College. Most clear-cut case: the dismissal of young (29) George Parker, an assistant professor of religion and philosophy at Evansville and also county chairman of Citizens for Wallace. Just before he got the sack, Parker had presided at a meeting addressed by Henry Wallace. Explained Evansville's President Lincoln B. Hale: "Owing to Mr. Parker's political activities, both on and off the campus, his usefulness...
...cigarettes (which sell for 30^ to 40^ a package) come in by the carload. Nylons lie deep on department-store shelves. The newest Parker pens are fast sellers at most stationers. In old Juarez, some storekeepers are well stocked with U.S. tinned goods carried across the international bridge from El Paso, a few pounds at a time, by "carrier rats"-troops of black-shawled old women...
There are appropriate performances by Sydney Greenstreet as a mesmerist, blackmailer and general mastermind; Agnes Moorehead as his ruined wife; John Abbott as her twitchy brother; John Emery as an assistant scoundrel; and decorative performances by Alexis Smith as the heroine and Eleanor Parker (the woman of the title) in a double role. It is almost impossible to be frightened by the picture, but everybody involved seems to "savor" the period, as if it were fine old brandy. The brandy isn't as good as all that, but the savor is pleasant in an old-fashioned sort...
...green-tinted horn-rimmed glasses, talk about their "interesting new sounds." The high priest is Dizzy, 30, a South Carolina boy whose rapid-fire, scattershot talk has about the same pace-and content-as his music. Whether he, an obscure Manhattan pianist named Thelonius Monk or Saxophonist Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker invented bebop is a matter of learned dispute among beboppers...