Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lowry of Republic Steel ("I don't believe I'd know a plumber, electrician or carpenter if I saw one. I haven't hired one for years") sure pats himself on the back and slaps labor. So nobody hires carpenters, plumbers and electricians, and then no one buys Republic Steel. A perfect setup. We all starve...
THEODORE M. GREENE Yale University New Haven, Conn...
...where bumps and grinds have found refuge from Manhattan's clayfooted bluenoses, Mrs. Tommy Manville, 31, opened a one-week stand to supplement her income ($1,000 a week from Tommy). Asbestoscion Manville, 60, peevishly refusing to catch his estranged ninth wife's routine, snorted: "I haven't been to a burlesque for 46 years-and I won't start again with her stinky show...
Bobo had no idea how fast the gold would rush ("I haven't had time to figure it out"), but she was in a mood to celebrate. One evening later, coquettishly holding hands with Reno Hotelman Charles Mapes, Bobo showed up at a big stone castle on Lake Tahoe, where an even richer lady, Elsinore Machris Gillilan, a bride of 70 who inherited $20 million from her previous oil-drenched husband, was tossing a small, make-believe Hawaiian luau (a beach wassail where revelers cry "Oahu!"). There was no poi or okolehau, but there were oodles of orchids...
...suite of bedroom furniture and slipcovers for chairs, built a snowplow, and rigged a darkroom for his other hobby, photography. Says Lowry, in the independent voice of all his breed: "I don't believe I'd know a plumber, electrician or carpenter if I saw one. I haven't hired one for years...