Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ponder Heart is much like watching the village idiot for a couple of hours--the experience can be amusing, but it leaves a strangely bitter after-taste. The pitiful "hero" of the play, Uncle Daniel Ponder, is in fact a sort of village idiot of a small southern town. The inheritor of a vast estate, he grew to middle age without ever growing up. He spends his time playing with the local children, but some obscure loneliness finally drives him to marry a backwoods girl he picked up in a soda fountain. When the girl, who is even more childish...
Quiet, thoughtful Paul L. (for Linton) Patterson, now 55, was born in Ohio, the son of a Disciples of Christ minister, moved to Oregon in 1900, and left few distinguishing marks along his trail: law school at the University of Oregon, a small-town practice in Hillsboro (pop. 5,142), work with the Boy Scouts, and a back seat in the state senate. Then-with Patterson more as onlooker than participant-things began to happen...
...entire town of Santo Stefano filed silently to the cemetery, black-rimmed posters appeared on village walls all over Calabria saying, "Musolino is dead. He held liberty high...
...shoulder. After that the oldster did the teaching. He whipped off his glasses, grabbed the upswung truncheon with both hands, wrenched it away, then gave the young man several ferocious whacks with it before the cops put an end to the skirmish, a sequel to a talk-of-the-town scandal. The battlers: Dr. Gabriel Quadros, 67, father of Sāo Paulo's Governor Jãnio Quadros, and José Guerreiro, 32, whose 25-year-old wife ran away with the old doctor a few weeks ago. Crowed Dr. Quadros, clearly the victor: "That woman is mine...
...beat a federal perjury rap, New Jersey Mobster Joe Adonis was greeted as a local boy who made good by admiring townfolk of Montemarano in southern Italy. In honor of "Don Giuseppe, the miliondrio Americano," a great big hero's welcome blared from the steps of the town hall, where the town fathers, a brass band and Montemarano's two carabinièri, got up in three-cornered hats and fulldress swallowtails, assembled for the banner day. Deeply touched, Milionário Adonis later reportedly choked out wet-eyed promises to shower Montemarano with philanthropy. Soon...