Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living from crops of potatoes, wheat, cabbage and barley. It is not an unusual village-except in being a village at all. Four years ago, the site was war-ravaged wasteland and the villagers hopeless wanderers. What gave them life was the gift of a 68-year-old Philadelphia lawyer who does not believe in Christmas presents but does believe in President Eisenhower's idea that foreign aid can be on a person-to-person basis...
...that the real money was in the wrestling ring. Publicity-wise Ray Fabiani set up scholarships for young wrestlers (the recipients were sent to a muscle-building gymnasium), lured ex-Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis into a brief and unrewarding wrestling career, spiced his programs with talks by celebrities, including Philadelphia's Father Divine...
...Fabiani turned back to music two years ago with the formation of the Lyric, he has been doing all his own casting, drawing mostly on the NBC Opera and the New York City Opera companies, borrowing scenery from Manhattan's City Center. With citywide billboard displays, he challenges Philadelphia's entrenched Grand Opera Co. So far. the Lyric has been no more daring in repertory, will present ten works next season, three of which will be contemporary: Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana (both to be conducted by Leopold Stokowski), and Carlisle Floyd...
Died. Howard Ehmke, 64, major-league right-handed pitcher who started out with the Detroit Tigers, moved on to the Boston Red Sox (no hitter v. Philadelphia in 1923), and reached his high moment, playing for Philadelphia at the end of his career, when Connie Mack summoned him from the boneyard to be a surprise starter in the first game of the 1929 World Series and he struck out 13 Chicago Cubs (including Rogers Hornsby, Hack Wilson) to set a series record that lasted for nearly a quarter of a century-until Brooklyn's Carl Erskine mowed down...
...quickly recovered by using Bankers Securities to take over City Stores (Oppenheim-Collins and Franklin Simon), Loft Candy Corp. (267 stores) and other diversified interests. Greenfield, a big booster of Philadelphia urban redevelopment and the Democratic Party, will be succeeded by Gustave G. Amsterdam, 50, an associate for the past 20 years and president of Bankers Securities since...