Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first impression of Konitsa, as we bumped into the main square at the foot of the town, was that the shellfire had not done much damage. The houses are solid affairs built of grey stone with ivy and moss growing on the eternally damp walls. The shells merely seemed to have chipped their Turkish-built solidity...
...night fell, the shellfire began again, but this time it was the Greek guns firing out of the town on rebel positions high in the mountains to the northeast...
...Chicago's bleak Northwest Side, Louis Armstrong had blown in town and out again, with his new sextet. Those who knew their way around the neon wilderness of the Negro South Side could still sometimes find Jimmy Yancey and Albert Ammons pounding out noisy boogie in a couple of dingy cafes...
Back in 1926, on leave from his research and teaching job at the University of Chicago, Dr. Sudan went on a fishing trip to the village of Kremmling (pop. 567). Hearing that a doctor was in town, a villager asked him to visit four children with tonsilitis. Dr. Sudan stayed there until a little more than a year ago, as the only doctor to 4,000 people in an 80-mile radius. Then, ailing himself, he moved to Denver...
...fire at once, dashed off (in less than an hour) a melodic variation on a Creole fishmonger's call. J. Walter Thompson was delighted. Cried Composer Kubik: "By failing to write for radio and the films, serious composers are depriving the people of creative sounds and themselves of town and country houses...