Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fall of 1944 Millionaire Marshall Field, whose young Chicago Sun had not succeeded in rising above the commercial horizon, decided to grab the best talent his money could buy-preferably by taking it away from his rival, Colonel McCormick. Field invited Caniff to his apartment at 740 Park Avenue, blandly asked him: "What do you want?" Caniff hardly needed to answer: ownership of copyright. "I'm out to emancipate you," smiled Field. Then he added comfortably: "I imagine you're a well-paid slave...
Child of England. Field Place, the Sussex manor house where Shelley was born and grew up, "has a mighty roof of Horsham stone, and a line of chimneys like towers." It also has a park, a brook and a lake satisfactory to a fanciful child. Shelley's father, the squire, was a progressive gentleman farmer and brought up his eldest son to know something about pig-raising and Swedish turnips. If Percy seemed literary in boyhood, his literariness was long confined to a large appetite for sixpenny thrillers about vampires, specters and enchantments-a set of motifs he never...
...many a man, as for a tanned National Park Ranger named Bill Butler, it would be a rare day of rest, warmth and comfort. The odds had favored Bill Butler's spending Christmas high on glacier-scarred Mount Rainier. For four days he had been battling Arctic cold, avalanches and the dead-white swirl of alpine blizzards in a search for a lost Marine Corps transport plane. But a fall on rock-fanged ice had finally sent him skiing painfully back to his snug cottage in a timber-bordered Government camp. With his torn ribs healing he would idle...
Banana Pie. To husky, 17-year-old Richard C. Rowe of Denver, as to thousands of other U.S. college freshmen, the holiday held the feel of freedom, the warmth and excitement of homecoming. His mother had waited tip the night he got home from Park College at Parkville, Mo., and fed him banana cream pie. He had slept late, hurried off to meet other malted-milk topers at the Purity Creamery, and angle for holiday dates. On Christmas he would go to church, plough through a huge dinner, drive to a mountain cabin with his family to toast marshmallows over...
...weathermen admitted that they could not compete. Cold record for the U.S.: -66° F. at Yellowstone Park on Feb. 6, 1933. North America's coldest place is in Canada's lower Mackenzie Valley, where the thermometer at Fort Good Hope has fallen...