Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than six decades the little (pop. 791) Iowa town of West Branch has listened to old Newt Butler tell the same story-how he licked Herbie Hoover in a scrap at the swimming hole. Last week, as ex-President Herbert Clark Hoover returned to West Branch to celebrate his 74th birthday, Newt reminded his old schoolmate of the bout. Hoover just grinned...
Some 10,000 other lowans flocked to the trim Quaker town to honor its only famous son. Hoover dutifully examined the two-room frame cottage where he was born, nodded as the old wooden cradle was pointed out to him, took a drink from a gourd at the wooden pump out back. Did it all look familiar? Hoover smiled, explained candidly: "I left this home when I was four years old and moved to a house across the street. I don't remember anything about this house...
...Beau" Nash, a sort of combination of Elsa Maxwell and Ward McAllister in his day, "made" Bath. In 1705 he found the town squalid and cramped, the famous mineral baths (started by the Romans) badly run. Worst of all, there was no place for the fashionable to dance except the bowling green, and it was frequented by swaggering armed swells who unsheathed their swords at the slightest affront to honor...
...Patients. Two events (unforeseen by Smollett) changed Bath. One was a series of German "Baedeker" air raids, aimed at Britain's historical landmarks, which damaged or destroyed 19,000 buildings in Bath, and made the town overcrowded again. The other was the advent of Britain's Labor government. Minister of Health Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan decided that suitable hospital cases could get free spa treatment under his National Health scheme. The Health Ministry found that it was not going to be easy to decide who was "suitable." A mere yen to go down to a spa like the rich...
Cryptic Brevity. A native Kentuckian (born in a town called Hurricane), Tom Wallace joined the Times, at no pay, in 1900. He was 31 when Watterson made him the youngest member of the Courier-Journal editorial-page crew. Thirteen years later, when Marse Henry quit in a huff (because Owner Robert Worth Bingham came out for the League of Nations), Wallace switched to the Times as chief editorial writer. He has been there ever since, driving at dawn from his 150-acre dairy farm to fire his pungent editorial missiles through the composing room tubes...