Word: helper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news of the week was the high financing of Georgia's high-stepping Halfback Charlie Trippi. He showed up in Manhattan last week with the modern athlete's helper: a business manager. Trippi wanted to play both baseball and football. He began trading. The Boston Red Sox, who offered him a mere $30,000 to sign a baseball contract, were out of the running from the start. Then Trippi played off the New York Yankees (who own both football and baseball units) against Chicago's football Cardinals...
...Delp, a 33-year-old sawmill operator whose house was just a stone's throw away, was wakened by the crash and heard someone screaming for help. He jerked on his clothes and ran out. Gasoline was burning all around the gutted wreckage. His helper, Lawrence Mays, was already there. "The man was still hollering 'help, help, help,'" Delp said. "I saw he couldn't get out and I went under the fuselage and we pulled him out seat...
...bald head, steps into the stone-paved yard of his rambling Tudor manor house. Standing by the dairy is a neat, navy blue, electric van, loaded with Guernsey milk from Lord Digby's 30 pedigreed cows, pastured on his 200-acre farm. Accompanied by his helper, aged Edwin White, Lord Digby hops in and sets off to deliver milk to the inhabitants of Cerne Abbas...
Lean and leather-tough Joe Burke has spent 40-odd years hunting gold. As a $250-a-month prospector (employed by Toronto's Rush Lake and Berwick Mining Companies), he was in the Mackeith Lake country last June with a young Indian helper named Maynard Bromley. One hot day they worked their way through the virgin timberland around the lake, scrambling over fallen firs and through heavy underbrush. Ahead they saw a mound heavily covered with northern moss...
Born (1891) in Yorkville (Manhattan's Sudetenland), and raised in Brooklyn, Henry Miller spent his young manhood being an employe of Atlas Portland Cement Co., a theosophist, a tailor's helper (in his father's shop), a mail sorter, a Western Union messenger, a speakeasy operator. In Paris, where he settled in 1930 "to study vice," he worked at panhandling and slept on park benches. He also wrote his best work, a swatch of unabashed autobiographical writings (Tropic of Cancer; Tropic of Capricorn and others), and several volumes of second-rate philosophy with first-rate titles (What...