Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bangs & Sensible People. Born in Illinois about 50 years ago, Helen Hokinson studied art in Chicago, moved to Manhattan in 1920 and submitted her first cartoon (at a friend's insistence) to The New Yorker in 1925. In 1931, she started collaborating with James Reid Parker, 40, a New Yorker author, who suggested most of the situations, usually by mail, and wrote most of the captions...
Quiet since 1948, 'the Parker House is busy again. Banquets and teas and youth rallies fill the ballrooms, red-faced men in chalk stripe suits, with homburgs and cigars fill the lobby, smoke fills a dozen rooms from the eighth floor up. Across the street, a sound truck blaring MacNamara's Band disturbs the Puritan graves in the Old Granary Burying Ground. The vacant sides of buildings are plastered with candidates faces, and every gutter has a collection of campaign propaganda. It's election time in Boston, again...
Next Tuesday, it will all be over. There'll be a burst of applause for the winner, in the Parker House lobby. The sound apparatus will be taken off the trucks and the city will quiet down for another two years...
...Graduate Student Council will seek to have eight University parking spaces thrown open to students at night, Frank H. Parker 3G, council member, announced last night...
Favorable administrative response to the plan was received Monday, when Parker saw Reginald Phelps, Secretary of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Phelps will approach vice-President Reynolds and the University police on behalf of the council. If they approve of the idea, details will be ironed out and the plan will be put into operation as soon as possible...