Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturday nights the improvised jail in the cellar of the Masonic Hall is often too small for the traffic (maximum thus far: 22 inmates, mostly overnight drunks). So far the town has attracted only transient prostitutes. "A couple of weeks back, two good-looking women drove into town in a big Cadillac," reported Police Chief Leo Trudeau. "They had one price for the motel and one for the use of the Cadillac, but they stayed on just long enough to do a fast business, and moved on before we got to them." Busiest of the boom enterprises is a broker...
...Over a Four-Leaf Clover ("that I overlooked before"), and the tune was picked up as Senator Robert A. Taft's presidential campaign song. In 1954 came the Ames Brothers' record of Man with the Banjo, followed by Hey, Mr. Banjo and Banjo's Back in Town...
...Star Is Born: "Just not a show for a small town."-L. A. B., Browns Valley, Minn...
Riding the Boom. Soon after Hearst died (TIME, Aug. 20, 1951), Marion took notice of the postwar building boom, decided that the time had come to develop her holdings. She hired the law firm of Bautzer, Grant, Youngman & Silbert, thereby got the services of Hollywood Lawyer-Bachelor-About-Town Gregson Bautzer and Manhattan Lawyer Arnold Grant. "I do what they tell me," says Marion. "Greg has a great mind for real estate. He's smarter than...
...balanced." He has cold grey eyes and cropped grey curls. Men bristle with an atavistic hate in his presence, but women lust after him. Why has Gideon come back to a place he has avoided for 20 years? What is the fascinating secret of Helen, now one of the town's leading citizens, who once loved him unreservedly? Why do the hotelkeeper, the banker and the lawyer first fawn upon him, then try to threaten and bully him out of town? Since this is a "novel of suspense," such questions inevitably come up but are left simmering until...