Word: folksing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AT a venerable 78, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn is acutely sensitive to the afflictions of age. This year his brother Tom, 72, underwent surgery for cancer, lingered for several months, then died. Farmer Tom Rayburn had no money, no health insurance. Mister Sam picked up the bill which...
"I'm grown up now and I've got to recognize it,'' said the wavy-haired, blue-eyed Irish type from Oxnard, Calif. "Next time out, I'm going to try to get a job in San Francisco instead of going home. I don'...
Non-Heroes. The Theatre Guild's President Lawrence Langner thinks that scripts cater to parochial Broadway tastes, insists that the rest of the nation is not so fond of rape, reefers and sodomy. His views won front-page attention in a recent issue of Variety under the banner: FOLKS...
Aluminum Outhouses. An aluminum outhouse was announced by Alcoa as an experiment to find new markets for the light metal. Originally planned for public parks and forests, the "Autumn Brown" outhouse has drawn "amazing response" from farmers and folks in the hills. Price: $300 for a 6½-by-5...
Another Name. At 42, Joey has been waiting a long time to get to the center of things. Born Joseph Abraham Gottlieb, he grew up in Philadelphia. "My folks were poor," he remembers, "but I didn't mind poverty. They always played games. For instance, when I'd...