Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the ribbing to which the stolid old (276 years) city has been subjected for decades, Philadelphia (pop. 2,200,000) has much in common with other big U.S. cities: it is badly in need of a face-lifting. And more than most other cities, Philadelphia is up to its lorgnette in change. The sound of Philadelphia's mighty billion-dollar rebuilding program this week was clanging merrily from cobblestoned Society Hill to Germantown...
...dollar, one-hour train ride from Princeton, New Jersey to either Philadelphia or New York City. The nearest thing to a girl's college for miles around is the public high school, and there are only three theaters in the entire town. When seeking relief from the academic life, therefore, the average Princeton man invariably turns to his club. There he not only takes all his meals, but forms friendships, watches television, plays squash or bridge or ping-pong, drinks, parties, holds bull sessions, and even studies. Unless he's on a varsity team, its intramural program is his only...
Second place in the Ivy League will be on the line this weekend when the Crimson quintet meets Princeton on the Tigers' home court tonight and then travels to Philadelphia on Saturday to challenge Penn. The varsity, underdog in both games, must win one of the two to maintain its better than .500 record in League play and to stay in contention for second place...
...built. At a cost of $191,972, a total of 20 families are being housed in completely equipped structures with up to four bedrooms and spacious yards. Furthermore, the authority expects that separate houses will be much easier to sell to private buyers, as it hopes to do eventually. Philadelphia is mulling over the single-house idea to rehabilitate some sagging row-house areas, and the New York City Housing Authority plans nine one-block projects this year...
Died. Emanuel ("Manie") Sacks, 54, vice president (1950) of RCA and (since 1953) of NBC, longtime friend and agent to leading show-business stars (TIME, Dec. 17, 1956); of leukemia; in Philadelphia...