Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most striking was a radar picture of Manhattan taken through heavy clouds at a low altitude by the latest microwave set (see cut). Plainly showing, in fairly sharp outline, are piers, Central Park, individual buildings...
Last week, Busher was asked to give away plenty of poundage to her male competitors in Hollywood Park's $25,000 Will Rogers Handicap. She shouldered her 123 lbs. like a workwoman, got away fifth from her No. 1 post position, scarcely needed the gentle reminders from Johnny Longden's whip, drove hard for her 14th victory in 18 starts-but failed by a neck to make...
...Polka turned up in the news last week. He is a village orchestra leader named Jaromir Vejvoda, from the tiny Prague suburb of Vrane. In 1930, when he was 28, Vejvoda scribbled down Modran-ska Polka (his first composition) for his small stringed orchestra which played in the village park. Only in 1934 did he let it be published and words set to it. One Vasek Zeman retitled it Skoda Lasky (Jilted Love) and wrote these sob-saccharine lyrics in Czech...
...Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The new coalition of exiles did not include the 300,000 Koreans in Siberia. They remained aloof and inaccessible. At least 30,000 of them were said to be organized in a Red Army unit. They were apparently under the leadership of two veteran Korean leftists, Park Hoon...
...some 200 submitted as possible successors next year to retiring President Henry Noble MacCracken. New York State's Republican Committee noted that her column had been "concerning itself more and more" with state and city politics, wondered aloud if she was going to run for Senator. From Hyde Park came a reminder that she had often sworn she would never run for public office. On the Vassar matter she made no comment...