Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine summer's day, Cubs rise from the country's fields like a swarm of grasshoppers. Thousands of sportsmen, commuters, and joyriders use them for short hops between town and farm, home and hunting ground. Last week two young instructors from Maryland's College Park Airport proved that these flimsy air flivvers could also circle the world...
Good Saint. Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov was given the seat with the best view, through the front windows overlooking St. James's Park and, in the distance, Buckingham Palace. Across from Molotov sat France's Georges Bidault, unobtrusive, yet bearing himself as though France were in the European ascendancy...
...conferees had little time for parties and games. Thanksgiving Day, Bevin and Marshall found time for a noon meal of turkey and brussels sprouts with the American Society. One day Marshall dropped around to 28 Hyde Park Gate and had lunch with Winston Churchill. On Sunday, Molotov, with some dialectical-devotional time on his hands, drove out to Highgate Cemetery, where he laid a wreath on the grave of Karl Marx. Next day, pleading previous engagements, he turned down George Marshall's invitation to lunch...
Elsa Maxwell sounded an alarm. It seemed that Tyrone Power, in Rome, had hung up on Lana Turner when she telephoned him from Manhattan. "Lana walks around the Reservoir at Central Park at night," Elsa went on nervously, "sometimes until 2 or 3 in the morning. This is a real tip to MGM, which has a valuable star in Miss Turner and should watch after...
Died. James John Davis, 74, Secretary of Labor (1921-30), Republican Senator from Pennsylvania (1930-45); of uremia and a heart ailment; in Takoma Park, Md. Handsome, handshaking, Welsh-born "Puddler Jim" was a helper in an iron works at eleven, later made a fortune in investments before he entered politics. A longtime power in the Loyal Order of Moose (director general since 1906), he pushed its membership from 247 to more than 800,000, founded its two major charities (Moosehaven, Fla., for the aged; Mooseheart, Ill., for widows & orphans). In 1933 he was one of five acquitted...