Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington's Wardman Park Hotel, Cordell Hull had "no special festivities" (but a flock of telegrams from the world's great) on his 78th birthday, his first outside Maryland's Bethesda Naval Hospital in four years...
Dodger Day. Exactly 36 minutes later in Philadelphia's Shibe Park, the Dodgers hauled in the National League pennant with a 9-7 ten-inning victory over the Phillies. In the final week, they had gone to the top of the league (after six weeks in second place) by winning a crashing doubleheader in the rain over the Boston Braves (9-2 and 8-0). But they had less reason to thank their own bats than the batty stretch-run performance of the Cardinals...
...Anne of the Thousand Days, went backstage at Ken Murray's Blackouts, listened to jazz at Bop City, danced the Charleston at a teen-age party, sipped a horse's neck (ginger ale and lemon peel) at the Stork Club, took a moonlight ride through Central Park in a convertible with the top down, and burned her tongue on a nightcap of hot chocolate at Rumpelmayer's. It was the kind of Manhattan merry-go-round that teen-agers dream about for their first visit to New York. So naturally it was just the thing for Sheila...
...eighth president of Wellesley, she is a member of a rare species. In the whole of the U.S., there are only five other women who head major colleges: stylish Sarah Blanding of Vassar, Sweet Briar's pert Martha Lucas, Barnard's Millicent Mclntosh, petite Rosemary Park of Connecticut, and Bryn Mawr's stately Katharine McBride. "I do hope," said Dean Mclntosh, "that Miss Clapp knows what...
...high time, declares Park Avenue Psychologist Andrew Salter, "that psychoanalysis, like the elephant of fable, dragged itself off to some distant jungle graveyard and died. Psychoanalysis has outlived its usefulness. Its methods are vague, its treatment is long drawn out, and more often than not, its results are insipid and unimpressive." With this blast against his rivals and competitors, Salter opens his Conditioned Reflex Therapy (Creative Age; $3.75), published last week. The book is more than a sneer at psychoanalysis and its father, Sigmund Freud; it is also a loose-jointed exposition of the wonders of Author Salter...