Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Friday evening I read TIME'S characterization, "aging, ailing Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch" [TIME, Aug. 21]. Saturday afternoon I met Mr. Baruch in the park of Saratoga Spa (where he has been for the past three weeks), gay over his physicians' discharge of him as completely cured of the mastoiditis that attacked him four months ago, looking fitter than I have ever seen him in all the years I have known him, declaring that he "felt, and was, better" than he had been in ten years. He flexed his arm, and his biceps were hard...
Huntington Park, Calif...
...Soviets jerked the anti-Nazi motion picture Professor Mamlock from daily showings at the Russian World's Fair Pavilion, substituted Lenin in 1917, blandly explained that this was a routine change of program. At Coney Island, Park Policeman Thomas O'Connor saw Mrs. Ray Brodsky sitting on a piece of paper. When he warned her this counted as littering the beach, she called him a "Hitler." Brooklyn Magistrate D. Joseph de Andrea dismissed the charge but warned Mrs. Brodsky against calling anyone "Hitler." Prison wardens in New York, who feed inmates 51 ounces of meat a week, observed...
...giant pandas, chimpanzees, orangutans and other rare animals in Regent's Park Zoo were moved to more remote Whipsnade. Plans were made to gas all snakes, shoot all dangerous animals the minute war began...
...thin crosses cut in the black paper masking their traffic lights. Dim blue bulbs picked out busses and subway entrances. Lord Halifax, returning across Downing Street from No. 10 to the Foreign Office after a night broadcast, could not find the keyhole, had to strike matches. In Hyde Park, antiaircraft crews stood by their guns through the small hours. Frank Frewin Pinnock, 50, a London businessman arrested for reckless driving after a motor crash, pleaded "a mental blackout...