Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening sentence in the story really struck home ... I know just how tired the inhabitants of Kissimmee are of the stale jokes strangers make about their town's name. I know just how the citizens of Bird in Hand, Pa. brace themselves when an out-of-state car slows down and the smirking driver leans out and asks the way to the town of Two-in-the-Bush. I also . . . sympathize with all bearers of unusual Christian or surnames...
...Mayfair's fashionable St. Mark's Church on North Audley Street where the ceremony took place, musical bigwigs like Sir Thomas Beecham rubbed elbows with Britain's royal dukes & duchesses and 200 stout Yorkshiremen from the village of Harewood, who had come up to town in Sunday best to salute their young landlord. As the bridal automobile swept away from the St. James's Palace reception that followed, a single tiny Cinderella-like silver slipper could be seen bobbing in the dust behind...
...radiators in the U.S., the young marquess had amply rewarded the scrutiny by providing Mayfair with its best gossip. Sometime ago one of his showgirl friends shocked London by climbing into the coronation chair at Westminster Abbey for a publicity gag. Several weeks ago the enterprising peer titillated the town again and got his latest business off to a good start by sending out invitations that read: "The Marquess of Milford Haven invites your company at the opening of a new launderette in Hammersmith." He avoided the ever-present snares of bachelordom on both sides of the Atlantic. "I steered...
...Mekong River delta, where 90% of IndoChina's rice is grown. In a land that is five-sixths jungle, Ho and his forces can still strike almost anywhere. But while last year the Communists levied $30 million worth of money and rice from farmers taking their crops to town, government forces now guard the roads so well that the Reds' toll is almost nil. This has been achieved by what one French colonel called un petit cachet medieval: sentries are posted on 40-ft. towers recently built on each road at one-mile intervals. A dawn patrol from...
When the U. S. group arrived in Budapest on Aug. 14, it found the Hungarian government had turned over large areas of its capital city to the festival. Buses had been commandeered for transportation. The best restaurants in town were used to feed the delegates. The Amusement Park on Margaret Island in the Danube was carmarked for use by Festival people. So were the city's enormous public baths...