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After Mary Heaton Vorse had lived in Provincetown some 35 years, a native said to her one day: "We've gotten to think of you as one of us." Author Vorse was tickled silly. A hectic career as a pinko labor reporter and foreign correspondent has left her with little that is so permanently satisfying as her adopted home port, Provincetown-the fishing-&-tourist village at the end of Cape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: O Provincetown! | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...arranging a number of outings in which all students may participate whether members of the club or not. These will include an outing in the Blue Hills on Saturday, July 4, a bicycle trip to Concord and Lexington on Sunday, July 5, a day and evening either at Provincetown or Nantasket on Saturday, July 25, and a beach party at Duxbury on Saturday, August...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plans for Summer School | 6/26/1942 | See Source »

There was the U-156. On a Sabbath morning in July 1918, she popped up opposite Provincetown, Mass., stayed 90 minutes, fired 147 rounds, sank a tug and three barges. Hundreds of appreciative bathers, tourists and thrill-seekers lined the shore watching the engagement like a crowd at a baseball game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: What is a Menace? | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Taxco clings to the sharp slope of a barranca on the side of a bleached mountain 75 miles southwest of Mexico City. It looks like a miniature of Toledo in Spain; it is erroneously thought of in the U.S. as Mexico's Provincetown; and it has become by its recent development of exquisite silver crafts Mexico's Florence. Taxco is a tired old gambler of a town that has had just three brief runs of luck in 500 years. Last week the 4,500 Taxquenos, the President and Foreign Minister of the Republic and some 5,000 visitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Fiesta at Taxco | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

November 11 is the anniversary of two great events in U. S. history-the Armistice, signed at Compiegne in 1918, and the Mayflower Compact, signed at sea off Provincetown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Holiday? | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

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