Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Summer was here. In its outward manifestations it was about average. There had been heat-nothing sensational-but enough to make an undertaker sweat and a dog hunt shade. Big city subways were beginning to smell, tenement fire escapes were draped with bedding, park benches were solid with sitters. Bugs were back and committing suicide on a million windshields. Theaters boasted: "Cool Inside." The ice was about gone from high western lakes. Crab grass was invading lawns, screen doors already needed repairs, school was out and at least 53,487 small fry had been stung by bees or splotched...
...York's head hurt too. About 1 a.m. on June 8, a young air force veteran and his girl had wandered into Central Park after a Y.W.C.A. dance. They had been attacked by three thugs who had beaten the young man to death, robbed his body of some $6, and hauled his girl into the bushes for a double rape. About 4 a.m. the same day, a trio answering the same description had dragged two men from a car in Astoria, shot one, and beaten the other mercilessly. For twelve days, the thugs had been at large...
...been picked to work on the case in plain clothes, and that he only had ten days to do the job, but that it was his big chance. Later on, he said he thought there was some connection between this murder and that horrible one in Central Park...
...Dewey, an experimenter by nature, has no daily routine. Some days he browses in Manhattan bookstores for "tough" mysteries and nonfiction; if he spots a newspaper ad of a white-shirt sale he hurries off to stand in line; or he walks through Central Park, visits a Government agency downtown for a friend who needs help, and generally confounds people who expect him to act his age. In April he issued another of his periodic manifestoes for a third party. Other favorite recreations : double-crostics and letter writing (he has a voluminous correspondence) in his firm, open longhand...
...Peter Hayes also: 1) began a four-a-day run at the Roxy Theater (thereby upping his weekly take to $4,000); 2) quit radio writing, acting and singing (because he wanted time to sleep); 3) landed a principal comedy role in the Nunnally Johnson-George Kaufman fall play Park Avenue; 4) was offered, but had to refuse because of previous commitments, the serious Eddie Dowling role in The Glass Menagerie road company; 5) received a $30,000 offer to do one movie for International Pictures...