Word: parking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Freedomland opened in New York's Bronx three months ago with a blare of publicity billing it as the world's largest outdoor entertainment center. But it has been no fun for its promoters. Last week they were scratching to round up fresh capital to pay the park's bills and keep it operating...
...Many Customers. On opening day last June, 60,000 people, more than twice the number anticipated, came to Freedomland. This might have been good, but it was bad: the crowd struggled to walk through the semicompleted park, raised a storm of complaints and bad feeling. This was only the beginning of the trouble. A few days later, a stagecoach overturned, injuring ten people. Then three hoodlums robbed Freedomland's cash-control office of $28,836, and escaped. They were nabbed last week with only $14,563 left...
...long evening, there is little sense of repetition. There is great range of emotional and comic effects; of human activity, as with a man engaging in all the attractions of a fair; and of human types, as in catching the whole varied life of a public garden. As a park-bench gossip or seasick voyager, Marceau is hilarious; as high-wire performer, he can be both hilarious and terrifying; as a mask maker pulling masks on and off with lightning speed and ending in agony with a grinning mask that won't come off, he is incomparable...
...corner office high above Manhattan's Park Avenue, Scripps-Howard's Roy Wilson Howard riffled through a stack of well-wishing telegrams: at 77 he had just announced that he was retiring after 33 years as editor of the New York World-Telegram and Sun, divesting himself of all executive responsibility and authority. Said Roy Howard, who for several years had been removing himself from management of the Scripps-Howard chain, as he looked back on more than 60 years in journalism: "Newspapers, I like to think, are the common denominator of popular thinking. In the old days...
Died. James Shamus ("Jimmy") Slattery, 56, stylish, lightning-quick "dancing master" of boxing from 192-1 to 1935, onetime light-heavyweight champion; of tuberculosis, which he had been fighting since the early 19405; in Buffalo, where he had worked in recent years tending roses in a public park...