Word: towns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the fact we live in the town where it happened, it took TIME to tell us that blows were actually struck-instead of the whitewashed propaganda handed out by the college to the effect it was just a schoolboy fracas over a sweater...
...years, Cartoonist Fisher has tantalized his readers by discovering new, insuperable obstacles to the Howe-Palooka nuptials every time the perfect lovers seem about to get hitched. This week he will bow to "popular demand" and draw the knot in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Fisher's home town. Says married & divorced Ham Fisher, who takes Palooka as seriously as his most ardent fan: "They're going to be the ideally happy couple...
...supplement forums, educational and health programs with string ensembles, choral groups and dramatic shows supplied at times by I.L.G.W.U. talent (in 1937 an I.L.G.W.U.-produced revue, Pins and Needles, was an outstanding Broadway success). Boasts big, white-haired Frederick Umhey: "We plan to make WFDR the most articulate town-meeting hall, the outstanding music hall, the most attractive cultural center in New York...
...annual "first bale" race was on. Near Me Allen, Tex., young (27) Joe Acosta directed the 150 pickers on the 1,600 acres he tenant-farms, while he kept in touch with the nearby cotton gin, checking on his rivals. When Acosta had enough, he rushed the cotton into town to be ginned, piled the 512-lb. bale aboard a pick-up truck and raced 350 miles to the Houston Cotton Exchange in 6½ hours. For bringing in the first bale of the season, Joe got $1,325 in prize money, and another $1,203, a record, when...
...never have been, regular indoor moviegoers. The best customers are 1) moderate-income families who bring the children to save on babysitting, 2) the aged and physically handicapped and 3) farmers and factory workers ducking the ritual of dressing up to go to a movie in town. The drive-ins are also popular with young neckers, but exhibitors deny that their places are, in Variety's phrase, "passion pits with pix." Their righteous defense: nothing happens that doesn't go on in a balcony...