Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Father Divine and his Harlem Heaven have moved into Hyde Park the name should be changed to "Hy-de-ho" Park...
...Dinosaur National Monument, recently began building a museum. Last week the Department of the Interior announced that, by proclamation of the President, the monument had been enlarged: to its present 80 acres were added 318 square miles of Utah and northwestern Colorado, making Dinosaur National Monument practically a national park. In it, tourists will not for some time see dinosaurs. The only complete specimens dug at the monument are reassembled in Carnegie Museum at Pittsburgh and in American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan, the University of Utah and the National Museum, Washington. For a look at terrible lizards...
Around the first tee of the rolling Keller Park golf course last week crowded 5,000 Twin City fans. Of all the country's top-ranking professionals driving off in the $7,500 St. Paul Open, the golfer they were most anxious to see was the fabulous Walter Hagen, now 45, who had just returned to U. S. tournament play after a two-year globe-trotting exhibition tour. "The Haig" to prince and plumber alike, most colorful player the game ever developed, winner of 35 major championships (including two U. S. Opens, four British Opens and five...
...exhibition game (at night) against the major-league Brooklyn Dodgers, 7-to-6; during which 44-year-old Dodger Babe Ruth smacked a ball over the right-field fence for his first homerun in three years; before a record-breaking crowd of 11,724 who had stormed the ball park to see him do just that; at Hawkins Stadium, Albany. For his accomplishment, 240-lb. Babe Ruth, like every baseballer who gets a homer in Hawkins Stadium, received a case of breakfast food (Wheaties). ¶ The Gilmore: a new world's record for a five-man skeetteam; thus breaking...
...unknown reason, the famed geysers of Yellowstone Park in recent months have acted up. Eruption schedules have been disrupted. Old Faithful spat its steam to a record height of 223 ft. But according to a U. S. Department of Interior report last month (TIME, July 4), Old Faithful was still true to its name: it still blew off for five minutes every hour, like clockwork...