Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people tried their best to sing Vienna's lustige Lieder (jolly songs), but it was not easy. A current favorite revival was "In the Prater the trees bloom again," but few Viennese could sing it without remembering that their Prater amusement park was a mass of charred plaster and twisted steel...
Before coming to Harvard, McDonald managed the Boston American League Soccer Club for 20 years, a team composed of players largely imported from Europe, which plays its home games in Fenway Park. He also served as head coach for Northeastern University...
Success Story. Portuguese, however, looked happy enough last week as Lisbon turned out for the annual People's Fair (to aid Lisbon's numerous orphans). They rented boats on Palhava Park lake. They smeared their swarthy faces with spun sugar candy. They took pleasure in their jados ("songs of fate"), although these ditties are not always gay. Sample...
After 21 years as associate editor, Davenport moved into the corner office on the 13th floor of 250 Park Avenue. Said he: "I don't know anything about the job- but in a week or so I may." He had been "broadly uneducated" at several schools before he quit the University of Pennsylvania as a sophomore. ("The magazines had bought a few of my stories and it completely ruined me.") As an infantryman in World War I he went from private to captain, was badly wounded...
Arbiters of culture now are Mrs. Leonora Wood Armsby, who runs Pierre Monteux's San Francisco Symphony, Mrs. Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, who campaigns for sanity in art. Faces come & go around the Palace Hotel bar, John's Rendezvous, Golden Gate Park: "Jake" Ehrlich, attorney for the underworld; Bill Hurley, Third Street saloonkeeper who ran for mayor with the slogan: "Get up early and vote for Hurley; stay in bed and be misled." Henry Kaiser rides importantly back & forth over crowded Bay Bridge to Oakland...