Word: philadelphia
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Educators have long warned that TV has been turning the old art of reading into a closed book for the latest generation. But last week Emerson Greenaway, director of Philadelphia's Free Library, credited TV with, of all things, an improvement in reading standards. Said Greenaway: "Everybody can see mysteries, westerns and love stories on television, so when they come to the library, they ask for more serious books." Result: the library now spends more of its book-buying budget on classics, less on shallow stuff. TV, he says, has also stimulated a reading interest in famous plays...
Indicted last week by a federal grand jury in Scranton, Pa., on charges of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Government: Pennsylvania's longtime (1945-47, 1949-56) Democratic Representative (and chairman of Philadelphia's Democratic Committee) William J. Green Jr., 46, and former Democratic Representative (1945-47) Herbert J. McGlinchey, 52 (who ran unsuccessfully last month for re-election against Republican Hugh Scott), as well as five Pennsylvania contractors. The indictment against Green charged that he received $10,000 and realized an extra $20,000 in insurance commissions from the contractors, and, as a member of the Armed...
...York Giants were off and running toward their first National Football League championship in 18 years. Then they stumbled, lost to Washington and Cleveland. When they met the Philadelphia Eagles on the rain-soaked turf of Connie Mack Stadium last week, the Giants had their choice of winning the Eastern Division title for the first time since 1946 or slithering sloppily toward second place. The Giants chose...
...Betsy Ross's first husband, John, ran an upholstery shop on Arch Street in Philadelphia. When Ross was killed on patrol duty in January 1776, Betsy took over the business...
...unlawfully combining and conspiring" to obtain TV stations in five of the nation's eight top markets. Specifically, said the trustbusters, NBC threatened last year to withhold its network affiliations, (and guaranteed programming) from Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. stations unless Westinghouse swapped its radio and TV outlets in Philadelphia, the fourth-largest TV market in population and retail sales, for NBC's radio and TV stations in Cleveland (which, said the complaint, was the tenth market), plus...