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...utensils, a flap of canvas. Behind them, in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, lay the dead land of the drought. Ahead, at the end of the road of flight: California, the rich, full, well-watered San Joaquin Valley, where vast orchards and fields seemed magically alive with grapes, potatoes, peaches, cotton. Those were the bad years, and the Okies-300,000 of them-were hungry for work. Desolate, they moved from harvest to harvest-scrounging food for emaciated children, bedding down in farm shacks or U.S. Government emergency camps, harried by highway patrolmen and sheriffs' deputies-to become a symbol...
Cooks & Giants. Over the years they worked in the rich fields, got jobs as salesmen, short-order cooks, orange-juice stand attendants, worked for wineries, warehouses and cotton gins, bought homes and farms, raised good crops, joined Rotary Clubs, sent their sons to become lawyers, accountants, teachers...
Paul Peoples, who was eleven when his family drove in from Arkansas in a 1929 Overland Whippet, picked cotton, waited anxiously with his mother and three brothers each Saturday to learn if his father had made enough money for groceries. Today Peoples, 32, is a graduate of Fresno State College, works on his master's degree, and is Fresno's deputy probation officer. "There were two kinds of people then," he recalls. "Those who had never had a desire to improve themselves -and those who were looking for some way to better their lot. My father-he didn...
...previous marriage, Kimberly. In his three months on Maverick, to which ABC, Warner Bros, and the sponsor, Kaiser Industries, have committed $6,000,000 for 52 shows (13 of them repeats), he has earned a trifling $500 a week; but he insists that "salary doesn't mean a cotton-picking thing to me." Cowpoke Garner and his colleagues get the pleasure of playing from scripts in which a stage direction may read: "Maverick walks up to the camera and turns on that winning smile that has kicked his ratings up to the stratosphere...
Yeah, yeah, say some of his skeptical colleagues, but how will the U.S. moviegoer-who has been powerfully polarized to The Peroxide Ideal of Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield-cotton to this refined new kind of stimulation? "That smile," one executive shuddered. "It doesn't arouse the cad in a man. It brings out the uncle." And another thing: Maria's earthy body makes a startling contrast to her heavenly face. From her father's side of the family she has inherited the chunky frame of a Swiss farm girl, with heavy hips and strapping thighs. Richard...