Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become a great paper under Akers, but it did become a dedicated one; Akers encouraged depth reporting in such areas as education and religion, before most other dailies got around to it. Among his expose triumphs, he uncovered a "flower fund" in the books of a Cook County treasurer who was running for governor. When the Sun-Times showed that the fund was an assessment on county employees for campaign contributions, the treasurer withdrew from the race. In 1952, after the Kefauver crime-investigating committee allowed a candidate for Cook County sheriff to testify in closed session, Akers sent...
...federal court for unlawful police invasion of their home. The family collected enough to pay Moore 600 an hour for his four years' work. Meanwhile, he and his law partner had gone broke. Undaunted, Moore next worked round the clock for Paul Crump, the remarkably rehabilitated murderer in Cook County jail's death row. In 1962 Moore got Crump's sentence commuted to 199 years. Still in debt, he has switched to lawyering for the Justice Department's Criminal Division in Washington. Says he: "I feel lucky, going broke on the things I did." - Chicago...
...have all of the various Hunt products in different silver containers, and Norton said to Edward, 'Won't you have some catsup?' Edward said, 'Indeed not, I wouldn't spoil good food with that stuff.' Simon's wife laughed and said: That's why I've never learned to cook. Norton always pours catsup over everything.' " Later, Edward Fowles added: "But then, how would he have bought our Giorgione without the catsup...
...Negro leader, "but not a change in heart." The ancient clichés still abound, including the notion that most Negroes really don't want equality. As Negro Author Louis E. Lomax points out ironically in Harper's: "I have yet to meet a white man whose cook believed in integration...
Protected by bodyguards who brushed off newsmen and autograph hunters, the Chinese arrived in Ljubljana four days before the tournament began, set up camp in a schoolhouse twelve miles outside town. They brought their own food, their own cook, even their own sparring partners, trained in the styles of individual opponents-including the "tennis" grip favored by Western players over the older "penholder" grip still used with devastating effect by the Chinese...