Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When Pat was 13 her mother died, and Pat became the homemaker for her father and brothers. (The Bender children had grown up and moved away.) During the harvest, she worked in the fields with her family and the hired hands, then headed back to the kitchen to cook. "I learned fast," she remembers. "I'd bake a half-dozen pies at a time, two or three chickens-farm fare, lots of it." Pat was a senior at the Excelsior Union High School, when her father became seriously ill. She dropped her plans for a college scholarship and assumed...
...Petersburg, Fla., caught by police after trying to escape from the state road prison camp, Prison Cook Fred Mayo told the judge: "I didn't like the food...
...student school so their children will be "good for something." Then, in wide-brimmed white hat and apron, outworking her helpers, she hacks out a foundation, cuts timber, makes cement blocks, installs plumbing. In between, she keeps the children busy planting gardens, teaches adults how to read, write, cook and stay healthy, and every so often breaks out her guitar for singing and dancing. "I open their eyes," says she. "Then if they won't follow my advice, it's their fault if their children grow up to be bandits...
...boyhood in Doland, S.Dak. (pop. 550) was as sunny and secure as any American boy could ask for. With his older brother Ralph and two younger sisters, Hubert grew up in a spacious, white frame house, with an Airedale named Rex, a rabbit hutch in the backyard, a cook in the kitchen, and a green model T Ford in the garage. Mother Christine Sannes Humphrey saw to it that her children attended the Methodist Sunday school and listened to Harry Emerson Fosdick on the radio. Father Hubert Sr. read to the kids each night, but instead of Peter Rabbit, their...
...world. Capping his pleasure is the fact that there have been times when the world seemed to be sitting on top of him. The son of a Chinese store owner, he studied painting in Hong Kong, moved to the U.S. at 18, worked as a houseboy, cook and factory hand. The WPA art program started him on his long, steep climb from the gaudy obscurity of San Francisco's Chinatown...