Word: parks
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Perhaps for the benefit of other TIME readers who might care to help, we should print here the addresses of the United Service for New Americans and the Catholic Committee for Refugees. The first is 15 Park Row, the second 265 West 14th Street - both in New York City...
...Sweet Sixteen." The delegates were rewarded with a fleeting glimpse of Wallace, who appeared briefly at Convention Hall, then was rushed back to his hotel. The climax came the next night at Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia Athletics. Some 30,000 people, who paid 65? to $2.60 for seats, all but filled the vast, covered stands. Banks of blinding floodlights beat down on the speakers' platform erected near second base...
...grew weary of his austere suite at Walter Reed Hospital, sometimes threatened to move to a Washington hotel. He often demanded sedatives which he did not need. But he clung to life with remarkable tenacity. For years he took a daily drive-usually through Rock Creek Park. Famous visitors to Washington made a point of calling on him. During World War II General George Marshall dropped in almost every fortnight to keep him informed on the progress...
Pundit Henry Wallace, briefly interrupting his Third Party crusade for a picnic in Asbury Park, N.J., paired off with Congressional Candidate Sidney Stolberg in a game of old-fashioned Indian wrestling (see cut), won four straight falls...
When Acme's photographer handed Blumenfeld the fight pictures, away went the ambulance, the siren screaming. The pictures were developed on the way and sent to Acme's clients from a downtown office well ahead of the competition. At the next big fight, six ambulances were parked outside. Recalls Blumenfeld fondly: "We had a regular Roman chariot race down Park Avenue...