Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Visionary. Next day it was Henry Wallace's turn. Having walked the three miles from his Wardman Park apartment hatless in a raw wind, he arrived pink-cheeked and just nine minutes late. He, too, got a cheer from the crowd-his friends, this time. He, too, got quickly to what he believed to be the point...
...boss of the Cincinnati Reds a decade ago, Larry the Red painted the park orange, introduced usherettes and night baseball. Attendance figures doubled. He founded a farm system that brought Cincinnati two pennants, one world championship. Then MacPhail took over the seventh-place Brooklyn Dodgers, who were in hock to the Brooklyn Trust Co. for a half-million dollars. He talked the banking gentlemen out of another $300,000, peeled off dizzy amounts for new players, promoted crowd-drawing grudge fights with every club in the National League. When he quit Flatbush for the Army three years ago (the colonel...
...down with pneumonia. He never fully recovered. Though the Times listed him as managing editor for another seven years, he actually retired in 1925. He spent the succeeding years studying mathematics and astronomy, now & then catching Sir James Jeans or the British Museum in error. Last week, in his Park Avenue apartment, he got a piece of news by telephone: his only daughter had died. Two hours later, Carr Van Anda, 80, one of journalism's greats, died of a heart attack...
During the war, Miss Ferber has been devoting much of her time to war work, the nature of which she refuses to disclose. She has closed her big Connecticut house and is living in a big Park Avenue duplex apartment. Sick to death at the moment, of novel-writing, she is feverishly working on a play. "Novels are a waste of time," she declares, "when there are plays to be written, real plays." She still cherishes an ambition to become an actress...