Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every city and town in Massachusetts last week, police searched for a blue-eyed, four-year-old girl whose name and face were familiar to newspaper readers across the U.S. Everyone knew that the youngster was safe, but no one could say that she had not been harmed. Hildy McCoy, born out of wedlock to a Roman Catholic mother, was the innocent victim of a bitter and poignant custody case. To avoid giving her up, her Jewish foster parents had hidden her in defiance of Massachusetts...
Once each year since 1950, the eastern corner of the French Pyrenees has bloomed with music. The two-week-long festival in the little (pop. 4.400) town of Prades is too rare and delicate a blossoming to be enjoyed through the sunglasses of ordinary tourists; instead of 90-piece orchestras or 100-decibel choruses to remind a man that he is getting his money's worth, the music is small and wrought with loving care for some of the most passionately musical audiences in the world. And the focus of it all is the adored and venerated master-Spanish...
Last week Prades was in its annual bloom, and admirers followed the proud, stubby figure of the 78-year-old Catalan exile through the town and crowded his little house. Said one peeved old Pradesan: "If Casals scratches, they have to scratch the same place." But the top-rank musicians who came to Prades were hardly less worshipful. "What does Prades mean to a musician?" said Violinist Yehudi Menuhin to a reporter who caught him strolling through town in shorts, with a bunch of daisies in his hand. "It means the chance to play with Casals. Why does [Pianist] Eugene...
...Corner. In Dallas, a burglar broke into the Third Base Café, took $40 from the cash drawer, loaded up on foodstuffs, left a note of explanation: "The cops told me to get out of town...
Chain of Evidence. In Bountiful, Utah, Town Marshal Turner Burningham investigated a theft of $351 from a city hall safe, declared suspect everyone who had a key to the building, remembered that he had a key himself, turned the investigation over to the county sheriff...