Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swank Los Angeles Tennis Club setting was a step up from the U.S. pro championship, held last summer in Manhattan, on the miserable Rip's Courts at 39th & Park...
...Hollywood's Chapman Park Hotel, Barbara Jean Redd, 18, and Gene Curtsinger, 35, told 400 twittering spectators and (they hoped) a million radio listeners how love had come to them. Ten minutes later, after a quick wedding, they were back in front of the mike again to tell how they felt now. For this surrender of privacy, Barbara and Gene had been lured by the prize of thousands of dollars' worth of gifts and selected from 200 competing couples. The show: ABC's newest and gooyest: Bride & Groom...
Elliott Roosevelt's famed Apriority bull mastiff, Blaze, 125 lbs., won a bloody encounter with 20-lb. Fala on the lawn at) Hyde Park. He lost to Malvina Thompson, Eleanor Roosevelt's companion-secretary. When Blaze charged in a surprise attack, plucky Miss Thompson snatched the Scottie into her, arms. Blaze leaped. He got 1) Fala, 2) Miss Thompson (on the left index finger). Blaze tried to finish Fala. Miss Thompson conked Blaze with a rock. Fala went to the vet for a patching-up, Blaze (by Elliott's order) went to the vet to be destroyed...
With no wartime blackouts to worry about, hard-luck Gulfstream Park (plagued for five years by bankruptcy and anti-racing bans) raised its purse ante 100%. For its opening-day Broward Handicap last week, Gulfstream drew too many horses (enough to run in two divisions), twice the attendance (20,216) it drew on commencement day last year. The mutuel handle-with $805,866 jammed through the machines-was up almost...
...clergymen officiating will be Dean Willard L. Sperry of the Divinity School, Dean Henry B. Washburn, vice-Chairman of the Board of Preachers, and the Reverend Mr. Charles E. Park...