Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site at Hyde Park received a wire recorder, planned to use it to preserve personal reminiscences of people who had known the late President...
...galloped. Some said he was wind-broken. Actually, the weird, snoring noises were a hangover from a throat ailment that once caused him to keel over during a workout, and that kept him from racing as a two-year-old. Now, the noises were gone. Last winter at Hialeah Park, when he ran his first race, Coaltown won with ridiculous ease. Next time out, Coaltown equaled Hialeah Park's six-furlong track record with a breathtaking 1:09 3/5. The question was: could he go the grueling (1¼ mile) Derby distance...
...short distance east of the old Roosevelt mansion at Hyde Park, is on an 842-acre tract which the partners bought from the Franklin D. Roosevelt estate last year for $85,000. The building, an old remodeled white farmhouse, has rooms for 44 guests, can accommodate 100 diners at a time. Next year the Roosevelts hope to build a much bigger place modeled after F.D.R.'s stone "hideaway house" at Hyde Park...
...Wallace pretended not to hear. He strode into Washington, denounced universal military training,* said that Russian aggression was a myth, and then bustled back to Manhattan. He also found time to order half a ton of cow manure worked into the 5 ft. by 15 ft. plot adjoining his Park Avenue headquarters, in preparation for corn planting...
Better a garden In Kansas City than a park in Utopia...