Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sake. In Phenix City, Ala., after the producers of the movie The Phenix City Story announced that they were coming to town to film scenes of corruption from the city's sinful past, County Sheriff Lamar Murphy scouted about, found that the state's recent clean-up campaign (TIME, June 28) had left Phenix City clean as a whistle, hastily began importing all the gambling devices he could lay his hands on for movie scenery...
...beginning to feel that they were good men and could be trusted. Were things any better since the Communists went away? Some things, the barber replied. "There is peace." And one can travel (the Communists had required a permit for travel even to the nearest market town), and there is medicine from the U.S., and good days for his trade...
...tourist season, the geishas at Japan's 300-year-old resort city Kanazawa (pop. 250,000) decided that this ungallant Peeping Tomism had gone far enough. In an atmosphere redolent of heady perfume and rice powder, the girls met in the local town hall to air their indignation. "When I received notice that my earnings were estimated at over 400,000 yen [$1,110]' cried willowy Miss Grasslike Freshness, "my voice failed me." "My heart," mourned the veteran Miss Small Superiority, "is filled with sadness...
Beating Krider into town by a day, Wolfson gave a new set of supporters, inluding Restaurateur Toots Shor, Jack Dempsey and Joe and Dom DiMaggio, a glowing report on the earnings and divi-lend records of his companies. Wolfson aid that he would propose a three-for-one tock split and a 40? quarterly dividend hat would bring stockholders $1.80 more han the present $3 rate. An uproar started when Lewis Gilbert, perennial heckler at many a stockholder meeting, jumped up shouting to be heard. Gilbert wanted o know how Wolfson could tell the press ast October that he controlled...
Hard Bitten. In San Manuel, Ariz., editors of the San Manuel Miner announced temporary suspension of home delivery after Deliveryman Ralph Vira-montez resigned because he was tired of fighting off the stray dogs around town...