Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey's automobile reached Pawling Village, 105 miles from Albany, at 4 p.m., exactly on schedule. Pawling was ready, too. The wood-pillared front porch of the 58-year-old Dutcher Hotel was bunting-draped. In the tree-shaded park behind it-which looks like all U.S. village parks from Idaho to Georgia-1,000 people crowded behind the roped-off lanes. Men, coatless on the hot day, women in summer frocks and bare legs, young girls in pinafores and bobby socks, waited for a look at their famous neighbor, the man who owns the 486-acre Dapplemere place...
Then three of us sat down in a sacred park near by on the edge of a cement fence built around a pedestaled, steel-shelled Buddha which had suffered considerably from shell fragments-hits in the chest and behind the right ear. We opened a pack of K rations for breakfast...
Milton Snavely Hershey, 86-year-old chocolate king, was strolling through spacious Hershey (Pa.) Park when he came across an unattended candy booth, promptly got behind the counter, sold 5? chocolate bars (20? worth) before the clerk returned...
Died. The Rev. Dr. James Moffatt, 73, professor emeritus at Union Theological Seminary, author of more than 50 books on religion, Biblical modernizer (for him the Garden of Eden was "Eden Park" and Noah's Ark a "barge"); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
During the Prohibition '20s Billy had a connection with an exclusive "Club" on the corner of Manhattan's 52nd Street and Park Avenue. The club involved an initiation fee of $1,500 but people with money still filtered in. Finally police filtered in through the skylight. Billy, of course, had been gone for three days...