Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernard Baruch made a cute pickup in Manhattan's Central Park. It led to a drink...
...only child, William Jr., who lost a fight to be made guardian of his father's estate just before the old cowboy star died, was disinherited by the will; most of the estate's $1 million will be used to run the California ranch as a public park. Meanwhile, the public turned out by the thousand for a full-fashioned Hollywood funeral. The organist played Twilight on the Trail, and Crooner Rudy Vallee sang sad songs...
...more space for the poor man's holiday. "I don't want stories about how to cook supper in the backyard or how to save up 50? to go to Coney Island. I want articles about . . . what to do and what to see at Yellowstone Park. And in between, articles about what to wear at such places. That's what people want from a magazine called Holiday. Even people who can't afford to go to Bermuda want to read about...
Outside Philadelphia's Shibe Park last week, a newspaper delivery truck screeched to a stop. The driver dumped his papers and grinned, "What's going on around here, a World Series?" He knew the answer, and so did nearly everybody else in Philadelphia: the team that had been moribund for 28 years,* and in eighth place in the National League for seven out of eight years, was suddenly the livest thing in baseball...
...year ago, a crowd of 800 dead-end loyalists in the stands was good. One night last week, there were 20,000 cash customers left outside the park and 36,356 inside when the Phillies lined up against the St. Louis Cardinals. The Phils, in their new red, white & blue uniforms, made circus catches, beat out bunts, took the Cardinals...