Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perelman was a pioneer in the Broadway-to-Bucks-County rush which has filled the county's farmhouses with highbrow yeomen, including Moss Hart, Dorothy Parker and Pearl Buck. Acres and Pains, made up of 21 pieces originally published in magazines, deals sharply with such rural hazards as weekend guests, domestic animals, tractors and antiques ("Is anybody around here looking for a bargain in an Early Pennsylvania washstand? . . . Genuine pumpkin pine, with ball-and-claw feet, and a small smear of blood where I tripped over it last night in the dark"). Unlike some other city farmers, Perelman...
Harvard's oldest living graduate, Theodore Parker Adams '67, celebrated his 102nd birthday yesterday in Plymouth with a quiet family dinner at his home. With him was his wife, a mere youngster of 75 years...
...Fishbein became editor, he was encouraged to begin beating the bushes. Some of the odd game he flushed: a healer named Percival Lemon Clark, who attacked all diseases with a "sanatology blower" that was supposed to "dry clean the entire [internal] system"; a California dentist who called himself Painless Parker (use of the word "painless" was forbidden by law); a jack of all diseases named John Paul Fernel, who designed a "sleeping brassiere," for reducing oversized busts...
...Kenny Delmar, Parker Fennelly, Minerva Pious and Peter Donald are the radio actors who play all but one of these characters in "Allen's Alley...
Pulitzer Prizewinner Van Wyck Brooks (The Flowering of New England) got a license at 61 to marry Gladys Rice Billings, 60, remote in-law of Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall. Songwriter Milton Drake (Mairzy Doats) was sued for a separation by his lamzy divey, Betty. Dorothy Parker, 53, most-quoted lady wit of the '303, was sued for divorce by Fellow Writer Alan Campbell, who complained that they had become strangers. And Mickey Rooney, 24, was sued for separate maintenance by wife Betty Jane (Miss Birmingham 1944), who said she was dissatisfied with her $10,000-a-year settlement after...