Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...volunteers was John Danforth Browne, 23, of Florham Park, N.J. In 1941 he quit New York University, enlisted in the R.C.A.F. He fought out of North Africa and Britain. By last March his squadron had bagged 641 enemy planes...
...grass is Zoysia matrella (Manila grass), an oriental variety with which U.S. horticulturists began to experiment five years ago. Park Superintendent Leo Goss of Louisville has covered four acres of Seneca Park with Zoysia, spread its fame among U.S. greenskeepers. Propagated from runners* instead of seed, Zoysia spreads quickly, crowds out even crab grass. It has already been planted in a number of Southern airfields and country clubs...
...hospital itself was a strange asylum. In days of peace it had been San Diego's lush Balboa Park, scene of the 1935 California Exposition, resplendent with gardens, art galleries, museums. Of art treasures and exhibits nothing now remained except two stuffed elephants in the Natuarl History Museum...
...Diego's sickbay population, around 1,000 in peacetime, had swelled to more than 9,000, with a turnover of 5,000 a month. In Balboa Park, cots 'were jammed so close together that men felt their neighbors' pains...
...another ward they watched a movie. Leg patients clapped their hands; arm patients whistled. A bawdy revue, written, produced and staged by patients and staff members had been playing in the park's Old Globe Theater. Its title: Keep 'em in Stitches. Raucous audiences happily applauded such parodies as Corpsman, Keep Those Bedpans Quiet...