Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...youngest of the 26 people who had sv urn the Channel; his time was the second longest. Socialist Britain hailed Philip's feat of endurance as evidence that the welfare state was not softening Britain's youth. Ossett (pop. 15,000), Philip's home town in Yorkshire, prepared a big celebration. But his schoolmaster predicted that fame would not go to Philip's head: "He's a sound lad." Although Philip had stolen her thunder, Shirley May prettily congratulated...
...Rough equivalent of "carrying coals to Newcastle." A metalworking town 120 miles south of Moscow, Tula is famous for its samovar industry...
Meek little Mitsuo Handa had never wanted to make a million yen or be a conquering hero. In his home town of Maebashi, a crumbling provincial capital near Tokyo, Handa spent just enough time at his little bicycle shop to keep his wife and two children in rice and modest clothes; the rest of his time he fribbled away in an aimless search for a milder spiritual refuge than the stern Shintoism of his ancestors...
...Menjou, known for decades as cinema's fanciest-plumed male, got ready for a cross-country lecture tour that will give the citizenry the low-down on Hollywood. Said he: "Despite the fact that Hollywood is covered by more than 400 reporters, no one really knows what the town is like...
...Steak House in St. Louis, he strolls among the restaurant's potted palms every evening that he is free, smiling shyly at his guests. Even if the restaurant business should fail, he could always go back and become lord mayor of Donora, where special scoreboards keep the home-town faithful posted on every hit Stan Musial makes every...