Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high canyons of the financial district, clerks threw cautionings and paper to the winds, sent 77 tons of ticker tape and torn wastepaper fluttering down. (The tonnage for Lindbergh: 1,800.) Harlem's Negroes yelled like Indians on the warpath. Thirty thousand schoolchildren shrilled along Central Park drives. Everywhere the sound of cheering erupted deafeningly (after setting up a "noise meter" the stunned General Electric Co. calculated that it equaled 3,000 thunderclaps...
...brightly lighted. Then, at low level, the B-29s roared in. Two searchlights aimlessly fingered the sky and quickly paled into nothing as almost 1,000 tons of incendiary bombs turned the city into a flaming caldron. There was only one dark spot in the glowing mass: a baseball park...
...Central Park Mall on Saturday night, the 65-year-old magistrate led his orchestra of elevator operators, lawyers and middle-aged housewives in an all-Russian program. Part of the audience sprawled on the grass and enjoyed peanuts and ice cream with the music - but the musicians had more fun than anybody...
This trumpet-tooter is Romy Gosz (pronounced gauze), self-styled "Polka King." He is pictured serenading three newly married couples at a Bluestone Park, Wis. dance last week as 1,357 polka-addicts look on. The week was nothing special for brash, 36-year-old Romy Gosz, who has made some 35 records for Columbia and Decca, and turned down various offers from bigtime bands. He prefers to stick with his own six-piece group ("five men and one musician") and his regular circuit of small Wisconsin towns. Six nights a week he plays hot, fast and loud for dances...
...proved its thesis: that an adless paper could pay (if the proprietor is rich enough and patient enough to take years of losses). It had not proved, even to the proprietor's satisfaction, that advertising does a paper any special harm. Last week, in his 20th-floor paneled Park Avenue office suite, Publisher Field admitted that his adless daily may start to run ads as soon as paper is plentiful again. Said he musingly: "I think readers like...