Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife, there was never a permanent home. "I have kept house in everything but an igloo," Mamie once said. "I long to unpack my furniture some place and stay forever." Their first child, Doud Dwight, died at three of scarlet fever. A second son, John, has had an Army career...
...altercation with a marshmallow salesman who required 20 stitches to close an ugly gash on his jaw. Martin denied hitting the marshmallow man, but Yankee Owner George Steinbrenner decided enough was enough and fired his manager. It was Martin's second ejection as Yankee skipper, bringing his career total to five...
...Willie, say goodbye to America." With those words, Willie Mays ended his active baseball career six years ago. For 20 seasons with the Giants and two with the Mets, he had played the game with consummate skill and boundless joy. Under a $50,000-a-year contract with the Mets, Mays remained a goodwill ambassador for baseball, making publicity appearances and occasionally tutoring young hitters in the Mets' farm system. This summer he was inducted into the Hall of Fame after receiving more votes for baseball's highest honor than any other player in history...
Clementine was as staunch a Liberal as Winston was a Tory. Yet, as Soames tells it, his political career benefited greatly from the shrewdness and discretion of his "Clemmie." When Churchill was removed from his post as First Lord of the Admiralty during World War I, Clementine wrote Prime Minister Asquith an anguished protest: "Winston may in your eyes ... have faults but he has the supreme quality which I venture to say very few of your present or future Cabinet possess-the power, the imagination, the deadliness to fight Germany." Her further efforts managed to keep her husband from openly...
...Everything just happened then," he said. "I never lacked for work. I hadn't made up my mind that it was going to be my career, but was a wonderful way to pass the time...