Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stojan Gavrilovic, stepped out of a plane at LaGuardia Field to begin 1946's most publicized house hunt. Soon they ran into a devastating propaganda barrage by cities which want to become the home of UNO-and refuse to be intimidated by the strong sentimental lobby for Hyde Park...
...that Manhattan, definitely out of the running, was ideal because it could make any delegate feel at home-the Chinese would be happy living in Chinatown, the French in Greenwich Village, the British at the Waldorf. "If [the delegates] . . . were cooped up in some sort of compound at Hyde Park, it would be like a lot of laundresses taking in one another's washing...
Robert Moses, New York's panjandrum park commissioner, who has sounded off on just about everything and been righteously rude to just about everybody, let loose his Mosaic thunders at a small-statured victim. A stunt radio program had persuaded one of its audience-Lieut. Colonel William M. Hendrix-to model a figure of his wife, his first attempt at sculpture (see cut) and present it to the park system. Said bad-tempered Moses: "I can think of nothing more unwelcome than your gift of the bronze, life-size statue of The Ideal American Wife. I say this unhesitatingly...
...Hyde Park site would seem to fill the bill. It is within easy reach, over fine highways, of the nation's metropolis. In its 1,200 scenic acres there is room to spare for the necessary buildings...
Trainer Lipiec's horses frequently go to the post as long shots (10 to 1 or better) and with surprising regularity pay the kind of money $2 betters dream of. At Gulf stream Park this season he has run 47 horses, won eight races for a profit of $106.20 on a $2 flat...