Word: harriet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LABOR Struggle in Dixie Hymning the gospel of unionism with tent-revival fervor, 900 millworkers in Henderson, N.C. (pop. 14,500) last week observed the first anniversary of their strike against the Harriet-Henderson Cotton Mills with hand-clapping choruses of Onward, Christian Soldiers and Solidarity Forever. Carrying U.S. and Confederate flags, joined by hundreds of gift-bearing sympathizers, members of Locals 578 and 584, Textile Workers Union of America, jammed Henderson's National Guard armory, raised the rafters with well-tuned pentecostal voices and stood reverently as Mrs. Nannie Hughes, a millworker for 45 years, besought the Almighty...
Everybody knew that the Lord was supposed to soften the heart of John Downey Cooper Jr., 69, owner and son of a founder of the Harriet-Henderson mills. Long regarded with paternal affection by his employees, old "John D." unexpectedly scuttled the key compulsory-arbitration clause of a 14-year-old contract a year ago. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. Textile Workers (who made no counter demands) were convinced that they were up against old-fashioned union-busting in a state where their toe hold was all too shaky. Reluctantly, they pulled 1,000 workers from the mill in a strike that...
...month in Moscow, Georgia-born Author Erskine (God's Little Acre) Caldwell, 55, returned to the U.S. little richer but far wiser about the Soviets' fast way with a ruble. As one of the U.S.S.R.'s most popular U.S. writers (others: Mark Twain, Jack London, Harriet Beecher Stowe), Caldwell was intrigued about his royalties, if any, from many years of publication of his books. To his surprise, he learned that each publishing house had kept a tab of a sort on its debt to him. At one of them, he was told over much vodka that...
...ancient brotherhood of the troubadours." Back in Springfield, townspeople snickered; later he was to say, "People thought I fought for fame, but I only fought my way through from being the town fool and the family idiot.'' It was a long fight; Lindsay was 33 when Harriet Monroe printed General Booth (with its parenthetical instructions for bass drum, banjo and flute accompaniment) in her Poetry Magazine...
...Manhattan TV critics (the World-Telegram's Harriet Van Horne and the Journal-American's Jack O'Brian) headlined their views identically: THE BIG PARTY is A BIG BORE. Fresh out of quiz programs to sponsor, Revlon this year is betting on 15 biweekly CBS variety shows, each to be laboriously dressed up to look like a party thrown by show folk for one another. Host of last week's opening brawl (in a make-believe Waldorf duplex) was Movie Idol Rock Hudson, who a few years ago inspired the title for a comedy called Will...