Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three sons, he was born July 25, 1900 at Lanesboro, Minn., where father Bjarne Alfred Langlie clerked in a grocery and bakery. When Art was five his father, anxious for a better job, made the first of a series of moves that took the family from one Minnesota town to another and eventually west to Washington, where Bjarne bought a genreal store on the Olympic Peninsula and wired his family waiting in Minnesota to "come...
...breaking jump-off at 5 ft. 3! in. Dotty came home to her mother's little house in Mitcham and leaped through her days, kicking at high bannisters, skipping rope and playing netball, a British version of basketball. She accumulated more medals and trophies than a small-town pawnbroker. In 1939 she set a world's record: 5 ft. 5¾ in. Her awkward scissors style grew so popular that it had female jumpers getting off on the wrong foot for years...
Eleven years ago Walter Paul Paepcke, millionaire president of Container Corp. of America, motored into the broad valley of Roaring Fork River in Colorado and determined to resurrect the sagging silver-mining town of Aspen. Paepcke built Aspen into a center of muscle and mind, with one of the world's longest ski lifts (14,000 ft.) and summer conferences featuring greats of philosophy, education and musiC−Albert Schweitzer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Jacques Barzun, Mortimer Adler, Igor Stravinsky, et al. This week, with the tax evaluation of Aspen increased sixteenfold, Paepcke, 60, prepared to open a new nonprofit enterprise...
...honor of a leading citizen, Dr. Sam Merritt. Dr. Sam has put in 40 years of selfless service, and his friends are giving him a dinner at the local hotel to show that they love and honor him. (O'Hara is himself the son of a small-town doctor.) The speech made by Dr. Merritt's friend, one Albert Shoemaker, has the uncanny accuracy of sentimentality and vernacular inflection that perhaps only O'Hara can command. Anyone who has lived in a small town can read it with an absolute guarantee that it will make...
...wife whose mind gave way after she lost two babies. A Family Party is slight, but it was not intended to be more. It is sentimental, but its quota of sentimentality is precisely the dollop that is a standard ingredient in the life of almost anyone's "our town...