Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hart lives with his mother, whom he describes as "a sweet, menacing old lady" on middle-class Central Park West, scowls at white ties, gives manners-be-damned, whiskey-by-the-case, all-night free-for-alls, gets bored with people and keeps picking up new ones. Rodgers takes the world in his stride; Hart is tempted to protest, fume, explain, deprecate - argues, for ex ample, with the desk-clerk of a Khartoum hotel because it does not carry Variety...
Back from a trip to Trinidad, Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, New York Zoological Park's curator of mammals and reptiles, shamefacedly admitted that on the way home he had eaten twelve large, golden-hued frogs which had been intended for exhibition...
Malcolm Purves Murphy, Ridley Parr, Pennsylvania--Ridley Park High School...
...artists. In her huge old mansion on Penn Avenue, rich, widowed Mrs. Hailman almost single-handed keeps up a neighborhood where the Carnegies, Fricks, Heinzes and Mellons built their first palaces, only to move later to more fashionable fields. Socialite but steadfastly Edwardian, Mrs. Hailman dominates the city park system, has a tart tongue for politicians and a tender spot for fellow artists. Several months ago she commissioned young Pittsburgh Sculptor George M. Koren to do a group for her garden. Sculptor Koren produced three earth-spurning, wind-blown nudes symbolizing Pittsburgh's three rivers: the Allegheny, Monongahela...
Died. Hilda, 8, the Prospect Park Zoo's 3,000-lb. Indian elephant who fortnight ago was knocked into a 25-ft. moat by her mate; by shooting, after X-rays showed she would never recover from broken vertebrae; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Death came also to the U. S.'s only pangolin (TIME, Sept. 12). Cause: strangulation on a food morsel too big for its tiny mouth...