Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Housewife Peggy Nelson stared moodily at the mosquitoes swarming up out of the stagnant pond near her home in the little lumber town of Snoqualmie, Wash, and came to a decision: either she or the wretched puddle must...
...wild blackberry bushes and leveling the ground for a new housing development where ''Peggy's Puddle" once stagnated. Elsewhere in Snoqualmie (pop. 1,059), Peggy's fellow citizens had cheerfully waded into no fewer than 75 other "action projects" designed to make their town a better place to live...
Shucking off Stars. For the elder states man of baseball, the fact that the Pirates had become inconvenient to the rest of the league was pleasant news indeed. When Rickey came to town in 1950 -after building championship teams in St. Louis and Brooklyn - the Pirates were a lackluster crew bound for nowhere. As general manager, Rickey ruthlessly started to rebuild, and, according to many fans, generally managed to ruin the franchise as he poured everything into a hunt for new, young talent. Explains Rickey augustly: "I decide I'm going to paint a picture. I have the brushes...
Picnic. William Inge's play about a husky athlete (William Holden) who bounces around a small town like a loose ball while the ladies (Rosalind Russell, Kim Novak) fumble excitedly for possession (TIME...
...except that long worm lying along the floor . . . that suspicious-looking shoelace that will suddenly, swift as a whipped top, grow tense with terror." Gaston of the title is a black-spotted rat, as big as a rabbit, and he is stalked through the sewers of a French provincial town by the health board and its ratcatchers as assiduously as Melville's Ahab hunted the great white whale. Like Moby Dick, the great black rat is a symbol of evil and of an ambiguous enveloping doom far beyond the petty retribution of its death...