Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...questions came fast. Where was his home town? He did not seem to understand. Where was he born? That was easier: "In Kuibyshev, on the Volga River." "We know all about the Volga," a brassy chap informed him. "We have a song called The Volga Boatman" "Very nice song," observed the ambassador...
...society. St. Francis boys go to regular public school, and are encouraged to date local girls on Friday or Saturday nights. At the beginning, Ellsworth's citizenry was skeptical of such freewheeling, and they soon had apparent cause. Father Bob's first bad boys practically took the town apart...
Boys' Town Choir (Fri. 1:30 p.m., Mutual). Father Flanagan and a special musical program...
...About Town. Maurice Chevalier narrates (in English) René Clair's kindly caricature of early French moviemaking (TIME...
...lawyer's office. Electrified by reading Prescott's Conquest of Mexico, he studied Spanish, began writing a novel about Montezuma in a blank book one wintry night. He became a political reporter, for substantial fees helped lazy legislators draft their bills, became second sergeant in his home-town rifle company, and failed his bar examination. "Goodbye," said his father, when he marched away to the Mexican War, "come back...