Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mirror spent the night in the little ranch town of Escondido, which was all agog at the honor. At 5 a.m. it began the last lap, up the twisting road to mile-high Mt. Palomar. The pace slowed to a crawl as two trucks pushed the trailer...
Decorated Town. In return, Nichols Studded the area with Grecian urns, Italian marble fountains, Spanish gates and birdbaths imported from Europe. Sixteenth Century Italian columns bought from the William Randolph Hearst collection adorn a Kroger superstore. Though these ginger-bready decorations are anathema to severely functional planners such as Frank Lloyd Wright, the Country Club residents like them. Despite his weakness for the 16th Century, Nichols has also pioneered some 20th Century improvements, such as shopping areas in outlying districts, parking lots, rigid zoning laws...
...Much Glim. In Mt. Penn, Pa. (pop. 3,700), housewives got-and promptly tried-free samples of "Glim," a super-sudsy detergent made by General Aniline & Film Corp. Within a few hours, tons of grease that had accumulated in sewage pipes over the years were cut loose and the town's small sewage plant was virtually buried in bubbles, which overflowed onto neighboring lawns. General Aniline cleaned up the mess with "Chat,' another detergent that makes no suds...
...admirers of Novelist James Hilton, who have learned that his vehicles are always freighted with something worth unloading. In Goodbye, Mr. Chips it was Tender Sentiment; in Lost Horizon it was Thrilling Adventure; in this picture it is Gripping Realism. The story, which takes place in a British mill town between wars, sets forth in sweeping Hiltonian periods the author's social beliefs; he is squarely back of good government and sanitation, strongly opposed to alcoholism...
...About Town. Maurice Chevalier narrates (in English) René Clair's kindly caricature of early French moviemaking (TIME...