Word: pa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Stanley Porritt Rydal, Pa...
...penniless and crippled by alcohol, in 1953. Last week, after a lifelong battle waged by his daughter, Charlotte Thorpe, 63, the International Olympic Committee announced that it would reinstate Thorpe's medals. "My next push," says Charlotte, "is to get Dad's remains [now in Jim Thorpe, Pa.] back to Oklahoma so his soul can rest...
After an astonishing 4-0 start, Penn suffered its first loss of the seasons Saturday afternoon, falling to Lafayette, 35-20, in Easton, Pa...
...Fort Washington, Pa., a letter turned up at the offices of McNeil Consumer Products Co., the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary that makes Tylenol; it had been forwarded from the Johnson & Johnson headquarters in New Brunswick, N.J., because the word Tylenol had been written on the envelope. The letter demanded that the manufacturer pay $1 million into a postal box at Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. in Chicago, and according to Chicago newspapers it implied that there would be more poisonings if this were not done. Investigators identified the sender as a Chicago stockbroker, name undisclosed, who had been...
...though, just below the steep incline of road that rises through Updike's nine acres. It will arrive, some time soon, just as surely as scholars, journalists, graduate students and the idly curious have been tracking down Updike's past for years. They make pilgrimages to Shillington, Pa., where the author was born and spent his first 13 years. They then proceed to the old stone farmhouse outside town where he and his parents moved in 1945. They find his mother Linda, 78, still living there, cheerful, alert and willing to guide visitors through the landscape that...