Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's least surprising ovation was accorded in Asbury Park, N.J., where Music Boss James Caesar Petrillo was elected president of the American Federation of Musicians, for the ninth time...
...double equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee and a young soldier was erected by the Southern Memorial Association and unveiled by President Roosevelt in Lee Park at Dallas, Tex. It is a fine work of art by A. Phimister Proctor, who has just completed a group of horses called "The Mustangs" for the University of Texas campus...
...Offered two weeks at the Children's Aid Society summer camp, 12-year-old Mike Kivatisky, of Manhattan's upper East Side, politely declined. He explained that in Manhattan he could swim at one of the city's pools, play baseball in Central Park or a nearby vacant lot, get up when he wanted to. Said Mike: "Everything I can do at camp, I can do right down here. But here I can do it oftener...
Andrei Gromyko, who had been holed up on Park Avenue all winter, got a summer place for the last few months of his U.S. stay. Gromyko & family (wife and two children) moved into a 30-room villa on Long Island...
...York City's Van Cortlandt Park this week, a serious-faced group of aspirants-with bare legs and a sprinkling of bald heads-lined up for the big tryout in the 10,000-meter walking race. At the start, a few irreverent spectators began to snicker. The walkers, strutting along with exaggerated hip-wiggles, took no notice. They are used to playing to laughs every time they perform...