Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Highland Park...
Last week a six-foot former coal miner whom Dr. Joseph Hakes, Baptist pastor of Huntington, W. Va., calls "a man sent from God," kept a solemn pledge. He was ordained a Baptist minister. His name: Park Tucker. His parish : Tabernacle Baptist Church, Chillicothe, Ohio...
...paint brush beneath Cavaradossi's easel, he had to yank at it for minutes-Caruso had nailed it to the floor. Caruso's most celebrated peccadillo led to his arrest on the complaint of a Mrs. Hannah Graham who had run into him at the Central Park Zoo and testified breathlessly: "He insulted me. He brushed against me three times, maybe four times. He . . . He . . ." Caruso was tried for disorderly conduct before an adoring throng in a Yorkville court, found guilty and fined...
...orchestras played where they belong, okay, but this goddam transportation has been murdering us. If you go 100 miles out of town, it takes all day to get the band down and back and you have to give them two meals. You got to have a hall or a park. You got to worry about transportation of all the instruments which are a lot more than a jazz band. You got to hire a truck. You got to insure them instruments. Then you got workmen's compensation. It's a lot of headaches...
...Army had taken him to India, and it was there, Llewellyn claims, that he wrote the first draft of How Green Was My Valley. The final draft was writ ten on London park benches while he was jobless. In between he had been a boxer (his nose is slightly out of joint), a film extra, a reporter for a penny film paper, an assistant movie director and scenarist...