Word: pottstown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...puzzle, not a surrealist limerick, the foregoing verse is a sample of the 50 "charades" contained in this second book of poems by the famed, well-beloved 77-year-old senior master of The Hill School, Pottstown, Pa. The whole word, obtained by guessing the first, second and third syllables, is "nightingale," but the sly author makes his readers work even harder to be sure of this. His 50 answers at the back of the book are written in cryptograms, and "nightingale" reads ezulnzeuowr...
Nearby Spagnola works another old-world artist, George Spetsas, who was born on the Isle of Samothrace, went to Atlantic City at 19 because his brother was a hotel waiter there. No foreigner is 32-year-old Paul Jones of Pottstown, Pa., whose permanent display, The Spirit of Atlantic City, presents boardwalkers with a view of Neptune taking a good look at a mermaid...
Well-beloved by two generations of boys who call him "Pa" is Dr. Alfred Grosvenor Rolfe. 75-year-old senior master at The Hill School, Pottstown, Pa. "Pa" Rolfe has been at the school 45 years, stepping up whenever needed as acting headmaster. He conducts chapel patriarchally. now teaches only English and Bible since Greek went out of style. The latter subject "Pa" Rolfe has made palatable to many a Hill boy with verses he wrote at odd times concerning Old Testament characters. Now published is a collection of these: Songs of Saints and Sinners.* Explains "Pa" Rolfe...
...years ago Gene Venzke, who used to train for races by running to his job in a Pottstown, Pa. mill, became the first human to cover a mile on foot indoors in 4 min., 10 sec. Last year Glenn Cunningham of Kansas University, who took up running after his legs had been so badly burned in a schoolhouse fire that he was never expected to walk again, beat Venzke. Last summer Venzke and Cunningham were joined by Bill Bonthron of Princeton, who finished second to Jack Lovelock of Oxford in the fastest' mile on record. Lovelock's time...
...amazing season of records and reversals, Eastman is not the only U. S. runner this year who has set world's records and then been beaten. Gene Venzke, tall, sombre Pottstown, Pa. high-school boy, was unanimously conceded a place on the U. S. Olympic Team when he broke the world's record for a mile last winter. It looked as though Venzke would surely be what U. S. Olympic teams have lacked since 1912-a runner good enough to win at 1,500 metres - until he went to Palo Alto last week...