Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pittsburgh, Paramount employes sought a picnic place in South Park, were offered choice Warner Grove, indignantly refused, took Monongahela Grove instead...
Zita Miller, Park Avenue Glamor girl loudly touted as an authoress before she began writing her first book-something sexy about a girl named Flamingo Duval (TIME, April 1)-nearly had to start her career all over again at the age of 19. She 1) finished the book, 2) lost 16 chapters of the manuscript. They turned up a few days later in one of the very best restaurants...
Back in the U.S., he cut loose with a Jan Valtin horror story of Mexican beisbol. Mickey recalled the first time he saw Mexico City's Nuevo Laredo Park. At first he wondered why it looked so familiar; then he realized he had seen it before in nightmares, bumpy infield, wobbly stands and all. "If some of those Mexican henchmen didn't think you were hustling to their satisfaction," said Mickey, "they'd sidle up to you and stick a gun in your ribs. . . . It just scared the hell out of me." To hear Mickey tell...
...safe hit to left, the base-runner held up at third. Ex-Dodger Olmo, dozing in the field, thought the winning run had already crossed the plate. To show his disgust he fielded the ball, then turned and threw it-and the ball game-out of the park...
...after three months of stable sniffing, coolheaded, closemouthed Spencer Drayton made his first big news as chief snoop for the Thoroughbred Racing Associations' 37 race tracks. Case No. 1 was the story of three jockeys who "connived and conspired" to fix a race at Florida's Tropical Park last April 17. One of them, Robert Keane, then doublecrossed the others by riding to win, when he was "supposed" to lose. The Florida Racing Commission promptly suspended all three jockeys...