Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Merit-shuttled between official receptions and informal garden parties, intransigent nationalists wilted left & right before the family's charm. Daniel Malan, nationalist leader of the opposition, conscientiously boycotted Parliament's address of welcome, but even he was on hand at the state banquet. In a Cape Town park, a group of ardent anti-Britishers enjoying a barbecue apologized for their open shirts and rolled-up sleeves when ubiquitous Smuts suddenly appeared and introduced them to the King & Queen...
...Princeton and at Columbia, Secretary of State George C. Marshall also got an honorary LL.D. The General was in cosmopolitan company at Princeton. Among his honored fellows: Historian Arnold J. Toynbee (honorary LL.D.), Cinemactor Jimmy Stewart (honorary M.A.), New York Park Commissioner Robert Moses (honorary LL.D.), Broadway Producer-Director-Actor Jose Ferrer (honorary...
...Visibility. This stirred up rats' nests of red tape in Park Service offices in Washington, Chicago, Baltimore and Richmond, Va. Last week the Park Service began flying the flag both night* & day over Fort McHenry's carefully reconstructed ramparts...
...Twenty-five hours later, a Long Island Railroad passenger special hit an open (hand-operated) switch at Kings Park, L.I., promptly folded itself into a herringbone plait. Injured...
Last December he developed a new interest: Maryland's ancient, star-shaped Fort McHenry, which in 1814 was the target of the bombardment referred to in The Star-Spangled Banner. He sat down almost at once and wrote the National Park Service a letter. It began...