Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walter O'Malley were really shrewd, he would convert the Coliseum into an outdoor movie house when the Dodgers are out of town. With a built-in 42-ft. screen it should be a natural...
...York's Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, who called Democrat Walker on the carpet for personal questioning. But before Roosevelt had a chance to remove Walker from office, the mayor resigned and fled to Europe. Three years later he returned, played desperately at being a man about town, became a familiar and still-jaunty figure in nightclubs, theaters and bars before his death...
...melting on the mountain flanks. Below the snowline, 110,000 sq. mi. of the nation's sixth biggest state came alive with spring activity. Along the Sierra Nevada, Basque sheepherders led freshly shorn flocks to summer pasture, kept wary vigil against marauding mountain lions. In the revived ghost town of Virginia City, cars disgorged Midwestern tourists to gaze at Piper's Opera House and Lucius Beebe's Territorial Enterprise. Around Reno, candidates for grass widowhood whiled away their residence on dude ranches. Along Las Vegas' gaudy Strip, vacationers pumped the slot machines and queued...
...weekends, there is no doctor at the Radcliffe Health Center. Cases are referred to Stillman. The one doctor on duty there is not permitted to leave. There is, it is true, a doctor on call, as well: but when we called recently that doctor was "thirty minutes out of town;" and in an emergency, he would evidently be useless...
...minor emigration of star lacrosse players from Baltimore, Md., to Williams-town, Mass., during the past two years will make Crimson victories in either the varsity or freshmen contests this afternoon a very unlikely possibility. The varsity is making the journey westward with its ranks so depleted that four starters will remain in Cambridge...