Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Payoff. At Long Island's Belmont Park. Harold Holberg tried his best to bet $100 on the No. 3 horse in the eighth race, angrily protested when he received tickets on No. 4 from the pari-mutuel clerk, who refused to change them; when No. 3 finished first, Holberg took the case to court, finally...
...last the General appeared, his tall figure towering above everyone, his face taut and set. The bishop and the subprefect greeted him. The townsfolk trailed him to the park. There, bareheaded under a Tricolor mounted with the Gaullist Cross of Lorraine, flanked by the Union Jack and the Stars & Stripes, Charles de Gaulle said; "We will fight by the side of our Allies. . . . Our victory will be a victory of a free people. . . ." Then he sang La Marseillaise with his countrymen...
Along with problem dramas, A.N.T. has produced the current Broadway farce, Three's a Family and has gaily spoofed Strivers' Row, Harlem's uppity Park Avenue. Says A.N.T.: "When a race can laugh at its own foibles, it has really become civilized...
...plus one, the Zoological Society's council, which runs the Regent's Park Zoo, decided to build a new elephant house, put the parrots on its upper floor, move the insect collection to the second floor of the new antelope house. At midweek the unruffled London Times continued to devote its front page to want ads. But the "Thunderer" made a big concession to big news, put a tiny headline at the upper right corner of Page One: GREAT ASSAULT GOING WELL...
...Wells Prize in Economics. Marcus W. Collins Ph.D. '43, Cambridge, Mass., $300 Bowdoin Prize for dissertation by a graduate student. Edwin D. Harrington, Jr. '43-4, Wynecote, Pa., $200 Bowdoin Prize for dissertation by an undergraduate; Edwin J. Jacob '47-1, Detroit, and Carl O. Tolf, Jr., Naval ROTC, Park Ridge, Ill., Coolidge Debating Prizes of $100 each. Jack M. Fein '45, East Chicago, Ind., $75 Susan A. Potter Prize in Spanish Literature. Caldwell Titcomb '47, Augusta, Me., Carl Schurz Prize for excellence in German. Peter Flanders '47, Elizabeth Wilder Prize for excellence in German...