Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City's Robert Moses is a practical man, who believes that one park under construction is worth a quart of green ink on a city map. As Park Commissioner and the city's construction coordinator, he has done more to reshape New York's aging face than any other man in the last 14 years. The New Yorker's Lewis Mumford is what Moses scornfully calls "an Ivory Tower" planner, a devoted disciple of Scotland's famed planner, Sir Patrick Geddes, and a learned critic who for years has been examining Manhattan...
Accoridng to the scheduling drawn up at the Biltmore Hotel convention, Cambridge will not see a Heptagonal track or cross-country meet until at least 1951. This spring's track meet will be in Philadelphia's Franklin Field, the 1949 cross-country run in Van Cortlandt Park, New York City, and the 1950 track meet at Yale...
Under his plan, rooms and suites will be sold to the present tenants for anywhere from $5,100 for an unfurnished bedroom and kitchenette, studio style, to $39,000 for a three-bedroom suite with terrace. In addition, the purchasers will have to pay maintenance charges, to 150 Central Park South, Inc., ranging from $1,404 to $10,374 a year. Kirkeby Operating Corp. will continue to run the hotel, its restaurants and bars. When owners are away, the management will rent the rooms and suites to transients, turn over the money to the individual owners...
...Last New Year's Day, at New Orleans' Fair Grounds, he rode his first race. Twelve days later he rode his second race and first winner-aboard a $52.10 long shot. From then on, he was the talk of the track wherever he went (Lincoln Downs, Narragansett Park,Suffolk Downs, Jamaica...
Robert W. Tolf of Winthrop House and Park Ridge, Illinois: Freshman Football, Freshman Swimming, '51 Smoker Committee...