Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearby Chicago's Englewood High School, where attendance is some 60% Negro, the race strike was taken up by 800 more. At Chicago's Morgan Park High, a Methodist preacher broke in on a strike rally at a vacant lot, told the students they would be striking against the U.S. Constitution. He talked most of them out of it. Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly termed the strikes "prank" stuff. A handful of Chicago civic groups hurriedly put on a city-wide "Youth Rally," starring black & white entertainers (Danny Kaye, "Bojangles" Robinson), to get kids back to class...
Carol hasn't made up her mind about Harvard yet, but she likes Boston she went to Durgin-Park and had clams for the first time in her life, and thought the democratic atmosphere "fascinating...
...Tokyo, where beggary had once been rare, police seized 232 vagrants in Ueno Park. Some were children who lived by begging and stealing, spending the nights under piled debris. In a nation of fanatic workers, there would soon be 2,500,000 unemployed veterans of the home army alone. The figure would grow as soldiers were shipped home from overseas...
...story: Robert Walker, a bellhop, becomes the personal attendant of Hedy Lamarr, a mythical European princess briefly visiting a hotel on Manhattan's Central Park South. Infatuated, he no longer has time or heart to spare for June Allyson, a little cripple who loves him. No objet d'art in the royal suite is insurable against his awed backward stumblings and heel-clackings...
Oldtime Vaudevillian Joe Frisco, still wearing his tramp clothes but without his stutter, caps the funniest of the nonsensical interludes. When the young people (Ginny Simms and Robert Paige) settle themselves on a park bench for what promises to be a familiar lovers' scene, up pops Frisco from behind the bench with an expression of terrible pain on his face. He proceeds to kid the cooing with a disrespect for the romantic routine that should make this scene worth the price of admission to moviegoers who are weary of screen mush...