Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story concerns a Manhattan artist, Joseph Cotton, who is striving to find himself, and the, unreal Jenny, or Jennifer Jones, who becomes his inspiration. He meets her first in Central Park, notes her pre-World. War costume and later discovers the newspaper she is clutching dates from the turn of the century. As he grows to know her better, the artist becomes more wary of the ethereal quality of his friend and there are several good scenes as the two talk about the future and the past, one never believing the other, but never really doubting. His Portrait of Jenny...
...When Floral Park's handsome society physician, Dr. Herbert J. Bernhardt, broke into the apartment of his estranged wife, Mary, brandishing a crowbar and followed by five ax-wielding minions, the woman from downstairs screamed, the two babies woke up crying in the back room and the dance instructor dropped his demitasse and fell off his chair." Tabloid readers just had to read to see what happened after the instructor and the demitasse hit the floor...
Back in the barn, the help call Calumet Farm's Coaltown "the Goose"; he has a way of outstretching his long, thin neck when he runs. On St. Valentine's Day at Hialeah Park last week, the Goose flew as he had never flown before. Flashing by the seven-furlong marker in 1:21 1/5 (world-record time), Coaltown was ten lengths in front and still pulling away. At the mile, stop watches caught him in 1:34 1/5 (a shade faster than Equipoise's world record set at Arlington Park...
Coaltown kept going, his jockey sitting as motionless in the saddle as a park policeman. At the finish of the mile-and-an-eighth race, the handsome bay stallion had equaled another world record-the 1:47 3/5 that Indian Broom hung up at Tanforan in 1936. Jockey Eldon Nelson dismounted, stared at the fractional times posted on the odds board and exclaimed: "Gosh almighty...
...Corroding Drop. When war came, Elizabeth Bowen was 40, a homely-handsome woman with a slight stutter and great charm, married to an executive of the BBC. She and her husband, Alan Cameron, had a tall house facing London's Regent's Park. There, Novelist Bowen sat down deliberately to restudy her Irish background, her English foreground and the lives she knew as they settled into war. The first result was a long book, Bowen's Court, on the history of her family and the estate in Cork that they had owned since Cromwell...