Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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America's Town Meeting (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC, ABC television). "What Should the Administration Do About the High Cost of Living...
Even before Peter the Great built his famed northern capital astride the River Neva and christened it with his own name, it was an old Russian custom to honor a hero by calling a town after him. With the renaming of Petrograd in honor of Lenin, the Bolsheviks picked up the custom and carried it on with such vigor that a Russian geography now reads like a combination Who's Who, Social Register and Roll of Honor...
Unlisted so far in this geographical Debrett's has been the name of Andrei Zhdanov. Cominform chief, who died last August. But last week that omission stood corrected. From the Kremlin had come orders that the following were to be renamed in Zhdanov's honor: 1) the town of Mariupol, where he was born; 2) the Tagansky District of Moscow; 3) the Primorsky District of Leningrad; 4) Rozhdestvenka Street in Moscow; 5) the Izhora Shipbuilding Works; 6) Moscow's Exemplar Printing Works; 7) the Krasnoye-Sormovo Metal Works; 8) the Vladimir Tractor Works; 9) the Leningrad State...
Uncle Bernabé. In such operations, Tacho learned a lot from the history of his great-uncle, the late Bernabé Somoza, who met an untimely death in the igth Century. Bernabé was an outlaw in the Nicaraguan town of Rivas, and he loved cockfighting and roistering even more than Tacho does. He was so handsome, says Tacho, that when he played the guitar, women shivered and swooned. "He could put himself in a yoke and pull like an ox." In a fight over a rooster, says Tacho proudly, Bernabé grabbed a machete and killed...
Tacho's own father was an honest small farmer who lived in the Nicaraguan town of San Marcos. With the help of a few good coffee crops, he sent his son to a business college in Philadelphia. Young Tacho learned a little bookkeeping, learned a lot about basic advertising appeals. He also went to the ball parks (to this day he is a fan of the Phillies and Athletics...