Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president of the league, singled and later moved to third, where he was held up by his dog Phillipe, the third-base coach. Then everybody sang Happy Birthday to Mrs. Rubin, with Leopold Stokowslci, 85, conducting. It was Softball of the Absurd, as presented in Manhattan's Central Park by the male (Wolf's Gang) and the female (Beethoven's Bunnies) members of Stoky's American Symphony Orchestra. Observed the maestro, who played guest of honor: "It certainly brings out a different side of their personalities from what I see in Carnegie Hall...
...minipark opened on East 53rd Street in Manhattan amidst the jam-packed office buildings, hotels and stores. Donated to the city just for the joy of it by CBS Board Chairman William S. Paley, 65, it is only 42 ft. wide and 100 ft. deep, yet Paley Park offers pooped passers-by a respite at little white tables and chairs in a setting of geraniums, honey locust trees, and a 20-ft. waterfall whose roar all but drowns out the yowl of city traffic. Paley opened his $1,000,000 oasis, last occupied by the Stork Club, with no ceremony...
...president. Martha Elizabeth Peterson, 50, who has been successfully contending with the problem of 53,000 students on the 13 campuses of the University of Wisconsin as dean for student affairs, will turn her administrative talents to guiding the 1,800 Barnard girls next fall. She succeeds Rosemary Park, who is moving to U.C.L.A. to become vice chancellor for educational planning-and also to rejoin her husband, U.C.L.A. Greek Professor Milton Anastos...
...when he limned a Picasso drawing, signed it and sold it to a Paris art dealer; he followed with two small Chagall gouaches, which he sold in London for $4,000 each. Stein arrived in the U.S. two years ago, and soon set up in a stylish Park Avenue gallery-apartment, where he had a number of genuine Chagalls and Picassos...
...dwarfs, but might as well be. Snow White says tartly: "The seven of them only add up to the equivalent of two real men." About all that they have in common, except Snow White of course, is the curious fact that each was born in a national park. Their leader, Bill, is in a slow decline, largely because he went to Bridgeport, Conn., to deliver a powerful statement, but Bridgeport wouldn't listen. Anyway, he is tired of Snow White now, and can't bear to be touched...