Word: parkers
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TIME, like Reader Parker, could be wronger, but not much, about the origin of "stogies" (March 4, p. 2). They were invented in Washington, Pa., a town equidistant from Pittsburgh and Wheeling (about 30 miles). The following is from History of Washington County, Pennsylvania by Earle R. Forrest...
Soon it looked as if Producer Jed Harris had won. Then things began to happen. Harris and Hemingway couldn't agree on revisions, and Harris checked out. Austin Parker (a former husband of Miriam Hopkins) took a $1,000 option on the play, died a few days later. From then on The Fifth Column was batted around the market; finally Hemingway threw the script on the shelf...
...news came from Washington yesterday for William J. Parker '43, latest undergraduate volunteer for the Finnish Army...
...letter acknowledging "with the thanks of the Republic of Finland your very generous offer of services to aid in out fight against the unprovoked assault of Communistic Russia," Per Zilliacus, military attache of the Finnish Legation, told Parker that only skillful technicians could be used...
...Naturally, I am extremely disappointed at this turn of events," stated Parker last night, "but if other interested students will join me, we may be able to follow Kermit Roosevelt's example by forming a volunteer regiment...