Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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London, noted an approving dispatch in the Philadelphia Inquirer, is remarkable for the "cleanliness of the streets, sidewalks and parks." Yet, remonstrated the Inquirer's fact-primed correspondent, "the City of London performs less cleaning service per square mile and per citizen than does Philadelphia, which goes to show that all the street-cleaning service in the world is not of much help if the people continue to mess up the streets...
...these home truths from abroad did not surprise Philadelphians, it was because the story carried the byline: "Richardson Dilworth, Mayor of Philadelphia." On a month's vacation in Europe that ended last week, Democrat Dilworth wrote a series of mayor's-eye-view stories for the Inquirer that found a moral for the home folks almost every place he visited. Describing the rebuilt sections of West Berlin, for example, Yaleman Dilworth said they offer "conclusive proof of how essential it is to the health and well-being of a large city to have ample, well-planned open space...
Moderately biased (both pro-Republican): New York World-Telegram and Sun; Philadelphia Evening Bulletin (which boasted of its fair political coverage...
...Rome Opera's marble-floored foyer into a sound booth lined with $50,000 worth of triple-track tape recorders, loudspeakers, amplifiers and oscillators. With promotion and distribution costs, Victor figures to sink $250,000 in Butterfly with a relatively unknown cast of young singers headed by Philadelphia-bred Soprano Anna Moffo, $250,000 in Tosca, which features such established names as Soprano Zinka Milanov (Tosca), Tenor Jussi Bjoerling (Cavaradossi), Baritone Leonard Warren (Scarpia...
Investigation. In New Philadelphia, Ohio, Police Chief Louis J. Clark, visiting a gas station that had just been robbed, dropped a piece of paper, bent down, spotted the thief under the desk...