Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wharton School of Finance, but left after one semester to enlist in the Navy. For three years (including ten months in the Pacific) Leader was a World War II supply officer. After the war he returned to York County and (with the help of a G.I. loan ) bought Willow Brook Farm, a 28-acre outfit with a tidy 80-year-old brick house and an operating hatchery just 15 miles from his birthplace. After a grinding first year, Willow Brook Farm paid off handsomely. Leader now sells more than 1,000,000 chicks and 60,000 broilers each year...
Mary Leader looks after the three young Leaders and takes care of Willow Brook's books, clattering out the accounts on her typewriter and balancing the books until midnight, most nights, while George relaxes in front of the TV set. (His favorite performers: Imogene Coca, Sid Caesar, Sam Levenson...
Losing Constructively. George Leader's long leap from Willow Brook Farm to the Statehouse in Harrisburg could only happen in Pennsylvania politics. Last February, when the state's top Democrats met in Harrisburg to select a gubernatorial candidate, Leader was just an uninvited nonentity. On the face of it, the logical Democratic candidate was Philadelphia's District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, who had given John Fine a hard fight in the gubernatorial race of 1950. But Dilworth, and his friend, Philadelphia's Mayor Joseph Clark, were embroiled in a nasty intraparty battle over a new city charter...
Techniques for Twitches. Before Landau was flown to the U.S., a blue-eyed pixy named Charles Brook-with a beard remarkably resembling Sigmund Freud's -commuted for weeks between his Har ley Street office and the royal stables outside Newmarket. A psychotherapist who began his professional career as a corporation lawyer, Brook would stride past the sneering unbelievers of shed row with magnificent aplomb and go directly to Landau's stall. There, standing close to his patient's side, he would place his left hand on the colt's withers, his right hand on the smooth...
Therapist Brook learned his technique the hard way-working on humans. With his delicate touch, he says, he has treated insomnia, twitches, failing eyesight, ulcers, bad tempers and alcoholism. He has even helped golf addicts to lower their scores. When he discovered that his laying on of hands worked in absolute silence, he was ready to take on dumb animals...