Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kaiser Aluminum Hour (Tues. 9:30 p.m., NBC). In So Short a Season Albert Salmi plays a town clown who turns out to be the fastest gun around...
...story in Rechnitz and in many another border town of the nation which more than any other has opened its heart and its hearths to refugees from Hungary. Committed to formal neutrality by the treaty that drove the Russians out of their country less than two years before, the people of Austria have been far from neutral toward the refugee Hungarians. Alone of all nations, they welcomed the halt, the blind, the sick and the aged among the refugees and did not seek to pick among them...
...drive him out of his apartment. From The Bronx to Basutoland, fans have deluged him with 2,000 letters, including 20 outright proposals of marriage, numerous veiled ones, solicitations from investment houses and wildcatters, requests for handouts that add up to more money than he has won. The town of Cornwall (pop. 1,100), where 26 Van Dorens gather each summer, asked him to finance a new fire engine, and some of Charles's schools would like endowments. One scholar suggested that Charlie endow a chair for himself at Columbia. One in four letters comes from a teacher, parent...
...Jews of Dallas (pop. 650,000) are largely descendants of early settlers who grew up with Texas, never bunched together in the little quasi-ghettos most early Jews formed elsewhere in the New World. Eleven of them banded together in 1872, in the dusty prairie town that was Dallas, to organize charity and conduct high Holy Day services. Four years later they had become the Jewish Congregation Emanuel, comprising 32 families. Today there are 1,500 families in Emanuel, the dominant Jewish congregation in Dallas. Its leaders include Banker Fred Florence (Republic National Bank), Papermaker Lawrence Pollock (Pollock Paper Corp...
After Australia's Davis Cup triumph, Australians and New Zealanders could be forgiven the notion that tennis down under is the best in the world. Then the pros came to town, and local pride went back into the marsupial pouch. Aussie Ken Rosewall hardly belonged on the court with Pro Champion Pancho Gonzales...