Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the dead were buried (the explosion itself performed this ceremony for some of the victims in No. 4, which was later sealed off) and the widows were comforted, many persons in the town muttered of dissatisfaction with life in Springhill, where no matter how often you took a bath you never could get yourself really clean. No one was ever going to get rich in Springhill, they knew that, and the work didn't seem the safest in the world. Mostly the young people talked of leaving first, of going up to Ontario where they could work...
...judge from current plans, producers will be working the Oriental gimmick to death, bringing new East-of-Suez shows to town far into spring. "Damned if I can explain it," says Producer Irene Selznick, one of the few who has yet to find a place in the new Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. "But it's good for international relations." Says Agent Rivers: "Sometimes it's all the great unwashed. This season it's Orientals. When this phase is over I'll be left on my tail...
...hairy-handed frontier town of Elyria, Ohio came the Rev. John Jay Shipherd to join battle with the Devil. The struggle lasted three years and was foredoomed; faster than Congregationalist Shipherd could preach the old time religion, Elyria's storekeepers passed out free whisky to boost trade. The Rev. Mr. Shipherd abandoned the town to its wickedness and with one disciple, the Rev. Philo Penfield Stewart, set out into north Ohio's dense elm forest. On swampy ground, a safe nine miles away, he founded Oberlin College...
...oldest store chains. Hecht was founded as a furniture store in east Baltimore in 1857 by Immigrant Peddler Samuel Hecht, four of whose five sons later entered the business (present Chairman Hecht is a grandson). May Co. got its start in 1878 in Leadville. Colo., a mining boom town where David May, a 26-year-old German immigrant, founded a clothing store. David May spread his stores through the Midwest, and his son Morton J. May, Buster May's father and the chairman of May Co., expanded the chain coast to coast. Buster still consults with his father...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). One of TV's best dramatic programs dispatches Edward G. Robinson, cast as a retired toy tycoon, to a small Vermont town, where the neighbors are right persnickety; with Ray (Damn Yankees) Walston and Beatrice Straight...