Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Wellsville, N.Y., still another TIME reader writes: "I am sure a town the size of ours (pop. 6,000) would open its heart to a group of displaced persons and provide them with everything needed to start over...
...Pittsburgh's Schenley Hotel, where the Giants themselves first heard about their new boss, the players sat around like men in a trance until 4 p.m., when Leo breezed into town. He was bulging with confidence. He had been studying the Giants from the Dodger dugout. He pointed to Johnny Mize, his new first baseman, and said: "Mize, you know you're no Hal Chase around the bag, but you're a good player and a great hitter. I want you to show a little life . . ." Then he singled out Catcher Walker Cooper: "When...
...like the fact that Mrs. Starr continued the local custom of demanding down payments from patients (except in emergency cases), and she has received some threatening letters. Says she: "I can't afford to run a charity hospital ... If I started supporting the indigent Negroes of this town, it wouldn't be long before someone would have to support...
...This town of Boston is become almost a Hell upon Earth, a City full of Lies and Murders and Blasphemies; a dismal Picture and Emblem of Hell." It is Cotton Mather, the fanatic 17th Century preacher, talking...
...best section of the book is its first third, "Bright Morning: 1630-1800." Editor Linscott reprints the "orders to the town watch" of 1657 which, after charging them "to look at the guns and fortifications," warns that "if they find young men and maidens, not of known fidelity, walking after ten o'clock, modestly to demand the cause; and if they appear ill-minded, to watch them narrowly . . ." Among the early "Rules and Regulations of Harvard College," issued at about the same time, was one enjoining students to "be slow to speak, and eschew not only oaths, lies...