Word: parks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City's Municipal Asphalt Plant (see cut), exterior designed by Manhattan's Ely Jacques Kahn and Robert Allan Jacobs, once inspired the city's terrible-tempered Park Commissioner Robert Moses to remark: "Horrible modernistic stuff . . . what could be worse?" But it is doubtful whether many New Yorkers will long feel that way about a building whose flowing, oval contours harmonize so well with the serpentine East River Drive on which it stands...
Operating at Revere were Red Naddy, Dick Mounts, Tom Morton, and Bill McCracken. Limiting their activities to Ruppert and roller coasters, they had a picture taken at a bar just to prove that you can stand erect and not astride someone at some places in this park...
...reception committee pounced on them, whisked them off in a big black official car to the official Guest House on Ostrovsky Street. Next morning the Poles dashed to the Soviet Foreign Commissariat, the U.S. and British Embassies. They dropped in at the Lenin Library, the Botanical Gardens, the Park of Culture and Rest. On the Kamenny Bridge Premier Mikolajczyk heard the boom of cannon announcing a Red Army victory. Said he : "It makes more noise than the buzz bombs...
...spite of the heat (96°) and the transit strike (see U.S. AT WAR), Philadelphians-29,166 of them-jammed into Shibe Park for a jamboree. The hot time was in honor of one Cornelius McGillicuddy, 81, from East Brookfield, Mass. Connie Mack had finished a half-century of big-league baseball management (Pittsburgh, three years; Milwaukee, four years; the Philadelphia Athletics, 43 years).* A jazz band let go, Abbott & Costello clowned. Master of Ceremonies Ted Husing stepped to the microphone near home plate to read a telegram from Franklin Delano Roosevelt: ". . . my sincere and best wishes on your Golden...
...Roosevelts. Last Sunday the whereabouts of President Roosevelt was undisclosed, but the chances were that he was not at church. When he is home in Hyde Park the President usually attends service at St. James's Episcopal* Church, of which he has been senior warden since 1928. But the special ramp and awning (put up at Presidential expense) at a side door of St. Thomas' in Washington has not been used since Easter 1941. This is not entirely a matter of Presidential choice. The Secret Service sensibly holds that the President's life might be endangered...