Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Algonquin Park...
...Midland Park, N.J., Pfc. Wilson Ackerman's parents got a letter from their son, with some news and a request: he had landed with the 6th Marine Division on a Pacific island named Okinawa; if the newspapers carried anything about it, would they send him the clipping...
Eleanor Roosevelt announced that she will live in a two-story frame cottage at the eastern end of her 900-acre Hyde Park estate, rather than in the 40-room "Big House." Her reason: "It is simpler and easier." Another reason: privacy-the cottage is almost two miles from the mansion, which eventually will be opened to the public as a national shrine...
Senator at Home. Now that Senator Vandenberg has become a world figure, the Vandenbergs' social life in Washington has changed radically. They are rarely in their two-room apartment in the Wardman Park Hotel. Even in the reduced social season, invitations have come to them by the tens and twenties, and they have duly made the rounds of the embassies and the teas...
...Gilbey, 85, rollicking British distiller and amateur horseman, famed for his loud check suits, curly-brimmed hats, perennial mauve carnation boutonnieres (two a day, four on Sundays, 39,000 in 47 years); in his partially blitzed London home. He loudly deplored the modern hatless, sweatered riders seen on Hyde Park's swank Rotten Row bridle path ("Hottentots!"), once launched a short-lived campaign to endow lectures on riding etiquette...