Word: townes
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Goodyear Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). Nobody's Town, with Jason Robards pitted against five sadistic gunmen in a small Western town (color...
...Broadway has presented some 40 shows this season, seems certain to crack last year's record of 68. Still to come: George Bernard Shaw's Good King Charles's Golden Days, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock, and a musical version of Tom Sawyer...
Frantic city fathers, merchants and clergymen called hand-wringing emergency town meetings. Manager Edwards appeared at many of the sessions, waving a pocket slide rule. He argued that Bayonne was living too high off the hog; e.g., it has 13.3 municipal employees per 1,000 residents, against a national average...
Enter, Caesar. Born in 1880, one of six children, Ivar Kreuger enjoyed a comfortable, humdrum boyhood in the forest-encircled town of Kalmar, Sweden. After cheating his way through school, and with an engineer's diploma in his pocket, Ivar began ricocheting around the globe. He did wiring jobs on Manhattan's Plaza and St. Regis Hotels, operated a restaurant -in Johannesburg. Back in Stockholm in 1908, he co-founded the building firm of Kreuger & Toll. Then he took over his family's three match factories, was shortly gobbling up competitors and building his giant Swedish match...
Some clergymen last week opposed the establishment of a dog track in the little (pop. 1900) town of Bellingham, Mass. on the grounds that it would create "a demoralizing effect" on the community and bad traffic conditions. Inside sources, however, claim that the real reason behind the opposition is not traffic or anything like that but the local aldermen's dislike of the "city outsiders" who would build the track. And whether gambling at a dog track is any more "demoralizing" than Wednesday night beano gambling need not be a consideration in this case...