Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Love (Lena Home; Victor). Lovely Lena's light, smooth voice vibrates with happiness in this so-so song from Wonderful Town...
...Park Forest, a suburb south of Chicago which is growing so rapidly that even local mothers call it "Fertile Acres," not even the oldtimers (residents of four years or more) could remember so bitter a fuss. It began simply as an earnest effort to cope with the town's overcrowded schools. But by last week Park Forest was hard aboil with scalding controversy of an entirely different sort. The cause, as the suburb's Reporter put it, was that "the fury of a woman scorned can't hold a candle to the heat generated by a parent...
...Little Bit Tense. The experts totted up the results. When the returns hit Park Forest mailboxes, the town exploded: 135 children had been flunked. Angry parents stormed the superintendent's office and school-board meetings. What, they wanted to know, had walking like a duck or hopping like a bunny to do with a child's maturity? One mother protested that her son had been rejected simply because he "was a little bit tense...
...Greatest Experience. Though he was making $200 a week during the depths of The Depression, squiring showgirls around town and living in a swank apartment at Manhattan's Essex House, Wouk began to feel that "gags were not the answer to the riddle of existence." He talked to his grandfather, and put his probings into a diary (he still keeps it, so far has filled 20 volumes-6,000 pages). When Pearl Harbor came, Wouk enlisted in the Navy. At midshipman's school he graduated in the top 20 in a class of 500, further distinguished himself...
...night late in 1944, when the Zane put in at San Pedro for repairs, Lieut. Wouk and a few fellow officers went out on the town. After all the bars had closed, one of the men remembered a birthday party being given for the boss of a file clerk he knew. "So we all barged in. I made a date with one of the file clerks for lunch the next day. All through lunch the girl raved about her boss, this beautiful, witty, talented creature. Naturally I went back to her office to take a second look, and I made...