Word: parks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THOMAS COLLINS Rockaway Park...
...week began with a visit to an uncommitted element of U.S. labor, banqueting in the same Sheraton-Park Hotel ballroom where he had appeared at a press photographers' dinner on June 9, less than two hours before he woke up with a world-shaking "bellyache" (TIME, June 18). His hosts last week: The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, celebrating with formal dress and caviar its 75th anniversary. Sharp in a tartan cummerbund presented him by the Black Watch, famed British Highland regiment, the guest of honor disposed of steak, enjoyed the Hollywood-flavored floor show, then delivered...
Councilor John D. Lynch gave the plan full approval, stating, "I believe in letting people park their cars anywhere, anytime." The other councilors in favor of Vellucci's proposal were Hyman Pill, Charles A. Watson, and Thomas M. McNamara. The proposal is under consideration by the Council's Ordinance Committee...
...Since the community has not yet accepted sex as a normal thing and still regards this tonic in the light of 19th century values, it is better that a student should "act up" in his room rather than on the streets in an automobile he is not allowed to park...
Lonely Hearts. The tabloid Napoleon, who sometimes propped his hand in his vest, waged the war for circulation (goal: 1,000,000) with stunts and sensations. The Graphic gave toys to the poor in Central Park, filled Madison Square Garden with a "Lonely Hearts Ball." The lonely hearts project was dropped within a year, when a woman deposited a baby on Gauvreau's desk and asked what he proposed to do about it. It had happened after the ball, she said...