Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Where's My Tommy?" Rensselaer is the home town of Congressman Charles Halleck, Majority Leader of the House, who had wanted very much to be Vice President. On the platform stood Charlie himself. He was not invited to board the train and he looked more disconsolate than usual when the candidate majestically appeared. But Charlie cheered up later when Mr. Dewey, making a speech at the town's little St. Joseph's College, referred to Congressman Halleck as "one of the oldest friends I have in public life." During the rest of the speech Charlie beamed, clapping...
...week's end the Victory Special came triumphantly to Owosso (pop. 18,000), the candidate's home town. Some 20,000 people lined the streets as the motorcade carried the Deweys up Main Street, past the second-story apartment over Colvin's home appliance store where Dewey was born, up to the Owosso High School Stadium, where nine bands blared...
When the Indians from Hanover come into town they usually manage to provide a weekend's entertainment for everyone in the vicinity without resorting to anything more than a few bottles of firewater. For those who tire of defending themselves against these Dartmouth pranksters, however, there will be plenty of entertainment in town today and tomorrow...
...everything this weekend, with a selection from Sabu to Shakespeare playing in the vicinity. The latter is represented with two productions, Laurence Oliver's magnificent Hamlet, and Orson Welles' less successful Macbeth, playing at the Astor and Esquire respectively. Sabu gets in his licks with the return to town of his ancient classic Drums, which is billed with yet another tale of the Black Heart of Africa, Alexander Korda's Four Feathers...
...Houses, there are unlimited opportunities for good dining in both Boston and Cambridge. Such spots as Jim's, the Coach Grille, the Belia Vista, and the O. G. are old stand-bys for residents of the Square, but the more ambitious and opulent may care to venture in town to such famous spots as Locke Obers, Jake Wirth's the Parker House, the Union Oyster House, or Durgin Park, all of which are within easy distance of what passes for the Hub's light belt...