Word: pocono
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral show is new to television audiences, but Broadway oldtimers have seen it growing in bits & pieces for years- in Greenwich Village nightclubs, fashionable saloons on Manhattan's East Side, and the Pocono Mountains sector of the straw-hat circuit. Its jokes and patter are brittle, rowdy, funny and full of satirical special reference. A number of its people (most of them members of a permanent cast) grew up in show business with such bright youngsters as Danny Kaye and Betty Garrett. By & large, the costumes, decor and choreography are better than may be found in any nightclub...
...clue to the disease's source was found not in the Army but in a youngsters' camp in the Pocono Mountains, where two summers ago 350 of the 572 campers came down with jaundice. Army doctors promptly seized on a made-to-order opportunity to investigate, eventually traced the infection to a camp well into which cesspools drained. With the help of conscienious objectors, who volunteered to drink from the well, doctors established that the disease was caused by an invisible organism, probably a virus, in the water...
...cool, rural peace of Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains last week some 500 labor union delegates and labor economists listened thoughtfully to two men whom most unionists regard as caustic critics...
Deep in Pennsylvania's blue Pocono hills is a 350-acre tract of farm and wood land called Kirkridge. In Kirkridge's ram shackle old farmhouse last week were gathered twelve Protestant ministers and laymen who described themselves as spiritually "hungry." Kirkridge is a "retreat" of an unusual kind in the Protestant church. Three years ago a small group of ministers (inspired by Scotland's famed Iona Community) met to plan a "dedicated order" in the Protestant ministry...
...super-modernistic Presbyterian Chapel in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains at Delaware Water Gap, to be equipped with movable seats and altars, whose arrangement will depend "upon the time of day, the position of the sun and the purpose of the meeting." The tower will contain a water tank...