Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former mounted policeman, Playwright Chalmers for many years did duty on Manhattan's theatre-crammed 45th Street. He loved stage folk, let stars park their cars overtime so long as he got their autographs. Last August, after a hospital maid he had allegedly been friendly with was found dead by a roadside, he was yanked off his glamorous beat...
...DURGIN PARK...
...James Roosevelt was born in a house in Manhattan at No. 125 East 36th Street, six months after his father graduated from. Columbia University's Law School, but his earliest memories are of Albany when his father was the State Senator from Hyde Park. James had not long toddled around Albany with his English nurse (his chief interest then was learning the names of all the local fire horses) before he was whisked off to Washington for seven years of the Wilson Administration...
Slowly but surely the magazine gained readers and advertisers. Yet when TIME was nearly three years old (circulation: 105,530), Editor Luce spent two hours one evening walking around Manhattan's Bryant Park with an old friend debating whether he and Editor Hadden could afford to raise their own salaries to $50 a week (their writers already were paid more). He decided they would be justified in doing it. But so ingrained was the habit of plowing back profits into the improvement of the magazine that not until 1929 (circulation: 243,400) could enough money be spared...
Officials of Chicago's suburban Des Plaines Valley Mosquito Abatement District know the difference between a mosquito drainage ditch and a hole in the ground. Furthermore, they prefer the hole. In a century-old pestilent swamp in Palos Park one afternoon last week they blasted out a vast sump, of which they planned to make a mosquito-proof "wildlife oasis." If mosquito larvae in the abaters' sump don't watch out, the bladderwort plant will get them. If insectivorous plants don't get them, whirligig beetles, back swimmers, dragonfly nymphs and top-water minnows will. Ditches...