Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rich: I can take you down to any store in town and show you price tags ... being reduced...
Toast of the Town (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). Guest: Rudy Vallee...
...months ago Adelheide was organized as a Christian Youth Village. The British military government was faced with alarming numbers of children who crossed from the Russian zone to wander, begging and black-marketeering, from town to town. Germany's Protestant and Catholic churches were called on for help. Both faiths agreed to make Adelheide over into a kind of coeducational Boys Town* and run it jointly. Today it houses 796 children-590 Catholic and 206 Protestant. On the Catholic side (a 22-year-old German law enforces rigid segregation in all joint Protestant-Catholic welfare enterprises) there...
...city boys are more sophisticated than the rest, but they are also more prone to homesickness and restlessness. Director Loebbert, who trained for the priesthood, relies on such Boys Town institutions as a juvenile supreme court to cope with minor rule breakers...
...first pennant since the American League was organized in 1901, the threadbare Browns went from bad to worse. About a year ago, the Browns sold a batch of their best players in order to stay solvent. The chief trouble, it seemed, was that St. Louis was a one-team town and the flashy St. Louis Cardinals were that team. The Browns were caricatured on sport pages as a bearded hillbilly leading a forlorn hound dog. Except for special occasions, the attendance followed the pattern of the pre-World War I days, which a mournful St. Louis sportwriter once characterized...