Word: skowhegan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Skowhegan, Me., Lake wood Theater: Gloria Swanson and Buddy Rogers in Red Letter Day, dramatic comedy by Andrew Rosenthal...
Last week, swarming to Capri in the thousands, tourists from Stockholm and Skowhegan discovered that Douglas' isle of dreams is rapidly being converted into a larger Coney Island with peculiar Mediterranean overtones. Last year Capri's 9,000 inhabitants watched 1,250,690 visitors scurry about the island; this year even more tourists are expected. Recoiling at the mere memory of Capri's milling mob of middle-class humanity, one starchy American matron indignantly proclaimed: "And for this I gave up a papal audience...
Bowdoin College Phyllis C. Weston, mathematics teacher at the Skowhegan (Me.) High School M.S. Citation: "Bowdoin today, in honoring her, honors all teachers, unknown and unsung, of such integrity, ability and dedication...
...Murrow is unquestionably the only TV news analyst to have a U.S. Senator for a foreign correspondent. The Senator: Maine's Margaret Chase Smith who, before she turned to politics, worked on the Skowhegan (Me.) Independent Reporter. When he learned last month that Senator Smith planned a European tour after her reelection, Murrow asked if he might send along a CBS camera crew. She agreed, and has already dispatched chatty filmed interviews for Murrow's See It Now with such personalities as Anthony Eden. Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge and Nye Bevan ("Mr. Bevan . . . what are your principal impressions...
...Elitch Gardens Theater, in Denver, Colorado. The playhouse there was originally an amusement park; when the experiment of presenting plays succeeded, the carousels were dismantled, and Elitch Gardens became the country's only summer theater. Its lead was followed two years later by the Lakewood Theater in Skowhegan, Maine. In the 50 years of its history, the Lakewood theater has become the center of a large colony, with a fleet of boats, golf courses, tennis courts, and the rest of the usual resort paraphernalia...