Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more had been added to her list: a youth suspected of robbing parked couples, and a sailor who had tried to strong-arm her in a public park, when she was walking her beat. Otherwise, Alice McCarthy's life had taken on a fairly sedate pattern in her middle age. She lived alone in a South Side apartment, went to the opera, studied French and Italian and went to Mass on Sundays. "I like all the finer things of life," she said...
...morning last week, 47-year-old Alice McCarthy and her friend went for their usual walk in Chicago's Grant Park. Alice wore a neat suit and a plain dark felt hat. As she walked down a park path, a hand grabbed her and a male voice said: "Come in here, baby." Alice jerked away, whirled when the man threatened to shoot and dropped him with a slug in the stomach. The ambulance people arrived to gather up No. 7, and Alice walked calmly off to the station to make out her report. Then she went back...
...weather this Fourth of July weekend is warm, and sunny, the U.S. people will go to their zoos by the hundreds of thousands. From New York's 251-acre Bronx Zoo to San Diego's magnificently landscaped Balboa Park, they will wander along the tree-shaded walks, peering into cages, gawking over moats, throwing peanuts to the elephants and popcorn to the bears, lolling, sweating, drinking, eating-enjoying, in sum, what is one of the most universal of summer pastimes...
...back in 1936, an eccentric old millionaire popped up on the palm-fringed campus of Rollins College at Winter Park, Fla. and began looking for a place to build an art museum. Even in those days, Spanish-styled Rollins College was something to behold. Under the unconventional presidency of Hamilton Holt, it was already running heavily to tennis and horseback riding, had abolished professorial lectures and final examinations, put little stress on student grades, went in for such campus curiosities as a tree-lined "Walk of Fame," paved with stones from the homes and haunts of the world...
This week, only the roar of an occasional plane and the distant hum of automobiles interfered with the music in Manhattan's Central Park when Hector Berlioz' long-buried Grande Symphonic Funebre et Triomphale had its first U.S. performance...