Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roger Dearborn Lapham, roly-poly mayor of San Francisco, raced his sedan through the city and across Golden Gate Park toward the University of California Hospital; in the back seat was his expectant daughter, Mrs. Ernst Ophuls, comforted by Mrs. Lapham. He got to the hospital's emergency exit in jig-time, only to find it locked, had to sprint up a flight of stairs to get the gate opened, then went off in search of hospital attendants. The stork won the race: when His Honor returned to the car, he found he was a grandfather for the tenth...
...fancy look of some hotels that the Army has taken over for its redistribution centers makes G.I. guests gasp. After a fortnight of top-priced splendor ($30 a day for two) at Asheville's Grove Park Inn (cost for soldiers, nothing; for soldiers wives, $1.50 a day) Corporal and Mrs. Harry Paczynski of Erie, Pa. were still pinching themselves. Said Mrs. Paczynski, after wandering through the huge, hushed lounge of the great grey stone pile: "Sometimes I wonder if I'm dreaming...
...Grove Park Inn is one of 48 resort hotels-at Asheville, Miami, Lake Placid, Santa Barbara, etc.-now used as redistribution centers for soldiers returning from battle. Last week the Army got started on two more centers. For Negro troops, it took over the Hotel Pershing on the border of Chicago's Negro district, got ready to move into the Hotel Theresa in Harlem...
...from extravagantly comfortable (single-room rates for civilians: $1.50 to $4 a day) The Pershing's best feature is a cocktail lounge on which $30,000 was spent last May. Facilities for golf, tennis, horseback riding, etc., are six blocks away (in Chicago's Washington Park). The Theresa has recreation rooms but is even farther from open spaces...
Chicago's blue-eyed, sallow Superintendent of Schools William Harding Johnson lives in the six-room lower half of a two-family house in the Rogers Park section of Chicago's North Side. Last week a dynamite bomb shattered his rear doorstep. It was, said the police bomb squad, "no amateur...