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Just the sound of St. Louis connotes better times, when the Cardinals were shared property of the Western states. And this autumn's monopoly especially brought back 1944, when the fall classic kept entirely to Sportsman's Park. Though the Cardinals won and the Browns lost as both were forever expected to do, the sweetest memory in St. Louis is of a series without boos...
...World's Fair, with its models of superhighways, bullet-shaped automobiles, electrical appliances and television, or "picture radio." He has, in fact, been there twice. The first time he accompanied a friend whose mother worked with Oscar the Amorous Octopus, a titillating sideshow at the amusement park. He returned on a family pass that he had won for his fawning entry in a typical-American-boy contest. The essay is heavy with irony. It also introduces a writer who knows what it takes to get on the bestseller list: "He roots for his home team in football and baseball...
Plausible legend has it that the Sheeds met on a soapbox. For most of their marriage they appeared to coexist on one platform or another, like figurines on a wedding cake. Sheed estimates that his father alone delivered some 14,000 outdoor sermons, manning pulpits in Hyde Park and on street corners from his native Sydney to his favorite adopted borough, Manhattan...
...rising water forced the National Park Service to close the Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln monuments, and K Street in historic Georgetown was awash, as a giant low-pressure system moved up the Atlantic Seaboard last week, unloading ten to twelve inches of rain into the James, Potomac and Roanoke river basins. But while Washington was getting its feet wet, parts of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland were devastated...
...family is scattered across the nation from Florida to California, but every Saturday we all get together in Lake Wobegon, Minn. Donna C. Noll Avon Park...