Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fighting Washington Senators continued their move for the American League pennant last night as Ted Abernathy baffled the Red Sox with a four-hitter to lead Cookie Lavagetto's men to a 5-3 victory at Fenway Park. Pesky Herb Plews with three blows led the attack for the visitors, while Boston's mighty Ted Williams went hitless, as did local star James W. B. Benkard...
...acre estate with 23-room mansion on Campobello Island, off Canada's New Brunswick coast, long the summer home of Franklin D. Roosevelt, was put up for sale in national magazine ads. Price: "$50,000 with original furnishings; $75,000 with Hyde Park items." Among the Rooseveltiana: "Museum-caliber collector's items [such as] F.D.R.'s Cabinet meeting chair, childhood drawings." Biggest inducement to a commercial-minded purchaser: "Unexcelled opportunity to create a self-supporting memorial museum...
...upstart mobsters to hasten the crumbling of Kingpin Costello's dark empire of crime and rackets would begin with the elimination of the Big Boss himself. Costello taxied last week from a quiet on-the-town evening to his apartment house on Manhattan's Central Park West. In the building's vestibule an ill-wisher met Costello, plunked one .38 slug into his head at ten-foot range, departed in a black Cadillac. The bullet, a hatband-guided missile, burrowed like a chigger in a short curve underneath Costello's scalp, and came...
...currently busy writing his autobiography, which traces his remarkable career from his boyhood in the Ukraine to his arrival in the U.S. in 1929. A high point of the reminiscences comes with the time Piatigorsky was a homeless young refugee in Berlin and often had to sleep on park benches; once, seeking dry shelter for the night, he slipped into an empty concert hall and out of his rain-drenched clothes, but found himself unable to sleep and spent the time till morning playing his cello nude on the stage. He has also written a novel that sounds farcical echoes...
...walk ten feet without getting squirted." "When spring comes I start thinking about summer but that's another story." "To me, spring means misery. It gets very hot in school. Another thing all the drunks come to Washington sq and lie all over the park...