Word: downtown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dismay and disbelief of civic-proud Los Angelenos, the Los Angeles Times reported that hordes of rats swarmed nightly over palm-fringed Pershing Square in the midst of downtown Los Angeles. The rats, said the Times, climbed down out of the trees to feed on popcorn and nuts forgotten by the pigeons in the daytime, drank from the fountain, scampered over discarded newspapers...
Maybe that's why more than 45,000 people are going to be in the Stadium tomorrow. Maybe it's just because last week's television was terrifically clear, so that in all of downtown Boston and South Boston's bars, men saw the Harvard team and liked...
...Labor Board from 1942 to 1944. He was elected to the Senate in November, 1944 and serves until January, 1951. Making a national swing this year on behalf of the Republican cause, Morse hits Boston on one of his final steps. After the University meeting tonight, he will appear downtown for another address...
...surprise was Page One: to get attention, it was turned sideways. The result was confusing when the paper was spread out, but it was an eye-catcher. What's more, the horizontal Page One solved the problem of Mirror display on Los Angeles' downtown newsstands; racks available to the new afternoon daily were not designed for tabloids...
...little Olivet College, a school of Congregational leanings in Olivet, Mich., T. Barton Akeley, 47, had taught political science for twelve years. To townspeople of rural, conservative Olivet, Akeley was a queer fellow: he wore a goatee and a beret, held unpopular opinions, and once appeared downtown in shorts. Some of the alumni looked askance at him: he was critical of fraternities and intercollegiate sports. And to some of Olivet's 17-man board of trustees, Akeley's self-admitted "general disposition to be critical" about college affairs was a stiff pain in the neck...