Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington chuckled over a story of one of Harry Truman's nights out-a stag poker party at the Wardman Park Hotel apartment of his chubby, story-telling Adviser George Allen. Somehow the secret of the visit slipped. By the time the President arrived, every man, woman and child in the hotel had been well alerted. A small army of Secret Service men added to the confusion. Said one observer: "A midafternoon parade down Pennsylvania Avenue could have been kept just as quiet...
Holiday in the Sun. In Los Angeles, steel and electrical workers picketed or sat under beach umbrellas. For some, it was like a holiday. Theaters and stores in the Huntington Park industrial district did a roaring business. Said one striker: "All during the war I was on the night shift and now I'm going to see every damn wrestling match I can until the strike's over...
Last week two respectable gentlemen, trustees of a will, were in Winter Park, Fla. poking and prying about Rollins College's palm-studded campus, trying to dispose of a body...
George Allen, who moved to Washington in 1929 to reorganize hotel properties (including the swank Wardman Park), has been one of the most powerful men in the Truman Administration. An affable, self-deprecating man, he is part court jester, part speech writer, part handy man. On the side, he is also vice president in charge of public relations for the Home Insurance Co. and a director of 22 corporations, some of them controlled by smooth, smart financier Victor Emanuel. He said he would probably have to give up most of these private jobs...
Each week 4,000-odd letters like these pour into the office of plain-speaking Dr. Ralph W. Sockman of the National Radio Pulpit. Rated by volume of fan mail. Methodist Sockman of Park Avenue's swank Christ Church is No. 1 Protestant radio pastor of the U.S.* Since good, grey, Congregationalist S. Parkes Cadman pioneered the field in 1923, radio religion has become a national institution, is preached to an estimated congregation of ten million...