Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sized up his new cell mate as an ideal companion. Like José, white-haired Abdias Scares da Silva was a habitual criminal with a long police record and a vast fund of anecdotes about his scrapes with the law. Besides, both men came from the same Pernambuco home town. In no time at all murderer and thief were swapping yarns, telling jokes, helping each other pass the dreary days in the Pernambuco state...
...town to address the Imperial Potentate's Banquet at the annual Shrine Convention in Chicago, Shriner Harry Truman, 71, smilingly donned a fez with the jeweled insignia of his home Ararat Temple in Kansas City, Mo., declared himself "fit as a fiddle," rode for a time in the seven-hour-long Shriners' parade, then joined Governor William Stratton in the reviewing stand. Next day he paid a call on Adlai Stevenson, fresh from a hospital bed and a bout with bronchial pneumonia, agreed with him that "the best thing for the country is the Democratic Party...
...suburb of Chicago, the letter from the new Citizens School Committee was not exactly a surprise, but it was alarming all the same. "There is a crisis in the Glenview schools," wrote the committee. "It is not something that is going to happen. It is here now." Unless the town took action, the schools would go on double shifts, and many children might not be able to get into a nearby school at all. "And this," said the committee, "is only the beginning...
Glenview was not alone in its crisis last week. Every town around Chicago, like scores of expanding suburbs across the U.S., was suffering from the plague of too many new houses and too few schools. In the Northfield, Ill. township (which includes Glenview), the overcrowding had become so acute that the board of education put up signs as a warning to homebuyers: "School crisis. Our schools are filled. No money to build new schools. School taxes at maximum allowed." The fact is, says one superintendent, "that if something doesn't happen soon, we're going to have...
Editor Reese reported losing no advertisers and only one subscriber, said her fellow citizens are "too intelligent" to support "a spite sheet." But the fight will be bitter. Says Herald Managing Editor Julia G. Swart: "We hope to be the only paper here. The town is not big enough to support two papers...