Word: fairmount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the days of the dime novel through the era of soap opera, U.S. romantics have dreamed of inheriting an estate and a title in Great Britain. Early this year the dream came true for 60-year-old Adrian Ivor Dunbar, a handyman from Upper Fairmount, Md. Adrian left England more than 40 years ago, made his way to the U.S. in slow stages via Australia and Canada, married a comely widow, fathered two sons (both now in the U.S. Army) and in 1939 became a U.S. citizen. Last January, at the deaths of two cousins whom he had never...
...September, Roseann Pinto, 14, and two parochial school classmates in West Philadelphia came home to their families with an exciting story. The Virgin Mary, the girls said, had appeared to them in a vision while they were sitting on a bench in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. They added that the Virgin was wearing a white gown and a bluish veil, and "vanished'.' almost instantly. Rumor spread that she had promised to return on the last Sunday in October...
Without help from either official Roman Catholic sources or Philadelphia newspapers, word of the vision got around. Crowds of people began to gather in Fairmount Park, many of them invalids praying for a cure. Rosaries, holy pictures and photographs were left hanging on the bush out of which, the teen-agers said, the Virgin had appeared...
...last Sunday of October, after the Philadelphia press and radio had made restrained mention of the story, a crowd of 50.000 flowed into Fairmount Park. Only a few claimed to see anything unusual, and most of their stories tended to conflict. Some of the visitors left money offerings ($2,300 so far). Park po lice took charge of the money temporarily, not knowing quite what to do with it. Last week, though diminished, crowds were still drifting into the park. The office of Philadelphia's Archbishop John F. O'Hara had no comment to make on the reported...
...Philadelphia, an eight-point buck wandered out of Fairmount Park into a bakery's loading yard. When four men tried to lasso it, the buck headed for an eight-foot fence, cleared it on the third try. With 16 police cars in hot pursuit, it darted 15 blocks to the Erie Avenue station of the Broad Street subway and slid down the stairs. Patrolman Thomas Gleason stopped it with a revolver shot as it was heading toward a turnstile for a northbound train...