Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group had just come out of the famous jazz joint when they were stopped by the cry "get those guys. You don't belong in this part of town." The attackers--about eight boys--were dressed in warm-up jackets and suede shoes...
Anna survived. Passed from hand to Christian hand like hundreds of other scared and bewildered children, she found refuge at last with five maiden sisters named Van Moorst, all Roman Catholics, in the town of Hilversum. All through the war she was safe. But at war's end it seemed that the ordeal of Anneke, as they called her, was just beginning...
...murder yarn in which what is really murdered is a bright idea. A woman's husband is killed; when the man tried for the crime is acquitted, the woman-certain that he is guilty-vows vengeance. She assumes a new name and an on-the-town personality, gets to know the acquitted man, frames him for the "murder" of her fictitious self...
...admirers was Stanford White, 47, the most prominent American architect (Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station, Washington Arch. New York University's Hall of Fame) of the day. and one of its leading quail hunters. One gaudy night, while Evelyn's mother was conveniently out of town. White blackly enticed the girl-or so she later testified -to a certain address on West 24th Street, which was entered through a secret door at the rear of a toy shop;. There, she said, he showed her into a room swathed in sound-stifling draperies from ceiling to floor, and containing...
...Place in the Sun. In Red Bank. N.J., the Chamber of Commerce protested a telephone-company decision to name the town's dial exchange "Shadyside.'' argued that the proposed name would have a "hick-town connotation...