Word: hazel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hazel, a male deadbeat, who owes his name to a remarkably unobservant mother. He lives with other deadbeats at the Palace Flophouse and is deeply disturbed by his horoscope, which indicates that he is destined to be President...
Plot? Yes, there is one, of sorts. Scholarly Doc is in the middle-aged dumps. Hazel, Fauna and the rest of Cannery Row decide that he needs a woman, perhaps even a wife. While guzzling a liquid killer called "Old Tennis Shoes," they pick the girl, a scrappy newcomer at the Bear Flag named Suzy. Suzy is unsure of herself. It seems that she was rejected as a child. As she tells it to her friend Hazel...
...HAZEL E. HESTER Atlanta
Cohn, a chunky (5 ft. 8 in., 160 Ibs.), hazel-eyed dynamo type with deceptively sleepy eyelids, carefully slicked hair, is a man of extraordinary talents. Gifted with a sharp, retentive mind and a photographic memory, he also has the innate political cunning of the kingmaker. As Joe's committee counsel, he moves around the room at a dogtrot, speaks like a machine gun. He is relentless with witnesses, scornful of weaknesses, nerveless before criticism, and contemptuous of all Senators on the subcommittee save McCarthy. With good reason, Joe calls Roy Cohn "the most brilliant young fellow I have...
Last week a reporter made another remarkable discovery in Washington: the Eisenhower Department of Agriculture, which had 15,000 more copies of the booklet printed last July, was still selling it. In fact, Miss Hazel K. Stiebeling, the holdover chief of the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics, was still stoutly defending the old DOA view that the Government should perform any useful service that a group of citizens want. Said she: "These booklets are published to fill a need. When they get into the hands of people who do not need them, they lend themselves to the humor...