Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys* had started out by stealing a .30-30 rifle from an unlocked car. Then they broke into a truck, stole cigarettes. Thus equipped, they headed out of town, hid in a ditch, and waited. Soon a car came along. One of the boys, masked with a handkerchief, sprang up, fired a warning shot. The car did not halt. There was another shot, a scream from the car, a slithering to a stop. Farmer James Millar Watson, 62, had been mortally wounded. A week later, when one of the boys confessed, police took them to jail...
...many ways, he seemed hardly the man for the job. He was a frail, redheaded Cornishman, known to most Britons simply as "Q." He wrote swashbuckling romances like Dead Man's Rock and The Astonishing History of Troy Town, so cock-a-hoop with adventure that he himself was "amazed ... at my own immoderation." He had been a dandy at Oxford, with a taste for bowler hats of different colors and loud checked suits ("What, another pair of trarsers!" Trinity's president would cry). He was also something of a radical who had denounced the Boer...
...rugged men of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra had just played seven concerts in eight days, but when Conductor Leonard Bernstein called for volunteers, 35 stepped forward. Crowded into two dusty buses, they crossed the Negeb desert to give the battle-scarred Old Testament town of Beersheba the first symphony concert of its history...
...Hearing for Henry. A teetotaler who bars liquor ads (but not beer ads) from his paper, Mister J.N. is a tolerant man. When Henry Wallace came to town during his campaign, Heiskell gave him free time on the Gazette's radio station to make sure that he got a fair hearing. (It was Wallace's own fault that his interview with Executive Editor Harry Ashmore made damning reading in next day's Gazette...
Gros himself designed some of the biggest of his 250 balloons, got Goodyear to make many of them to specification (none higher than 16½ ft.). He has a regular staff of 20 to keep them repaired and innate them for parades, hires 200 extras in every town to dress as clowns and man the floats...