Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peter Faneuil, warming his toes on the hearth one evening in 1740, decided things in Boston had gone far enough. Not the British, you understand, or the weather, but the markets. Peter, a wealthy merchant, was tired of traipsing all over town doing the family shopping; he wanted a public exchange center, an open market where he could get in out of the rain and cross off his whole list, from snuff to hops, at one time...
...Peter Faneuil told the town of Boston he would build "a noble and complete structure or edifice to be improved for a market" at his own expense, and would the town accept it? With Faneuil putting up the cash, how could Boston refuse? It took two years to build the structure--which not only had market facilities, but a large meeting hall on the second floor--and when it was finished, the town voted "that in testimony of the town's gratitude to the said Peter Faneuil, Esq., . . . the hall over the market place be named Faneuil Hall...
McCabe found one as coach of all sports at Manchester High, Manchester, Mich., a town 18 miles from Ann Arbor. In 1947 Ben never missed a Wolverine home game; afterwards, he saw the movies and talked with Valpey...
...Pearl Harbor, tall, grizzle-bearded Aristocles Spyrou tried to join the U.S. Army. But he was turned down as too old (56) and so he went back to his duties as Archbishop Athenagoras, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America. Born in a little Greek town under Turkish rule, Athenagoras frequently reminded his U.S. flock of their good fortune. "Just to be here," he would say, "that is happiness...
Editor Davis assigns four of her staff to do a picture & text feature on an Indiana small-town wedding. It is such a fascinating assignment that she drops everything to go along on the job herself. The writer is her old beau (Robert Montgomery), an unemployed foreign correspondent...