Word: helper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More's marriage is on the rocks. Having turned washing-machine salesman and failed, he has been taken to a refuge called Suicide Sanctuary. The sanctuary is run by a do-good nut (Bayliss again). As his wife and helper, Patricia Routledge hops around like a kangaroo whose pouch has just been rifled. Her name is Rover, and she has an imaginary dog named Maureen. "I hate the whole beastly business," says More. "The competition, the rat race." Replies Bayliss, in a tone typical of the play: "You mustn't hate the rat race. The human race...
...year-old Eleanor Roosevelt, even then a woman of wide and active interests, found it difficult to manage a household while keeping up with the capital's intellectual and social whirl. She hired a social secretary to work, as she later recalled, "three mornings a week." Her new helper was tall, strikingly attractive Lucy Page Mercer, 22, the daughter of a socially impeccable Maryland family that had lately fallen on hard times. To Roosevelt, then 31, Lucy Mercer became far more than a mere employee. In fact, says a World War II aide of the late President, F.D.R...
...nurse tending tuberculous patients is entitled to workman's compensation if she catches the disease, for TB is undeniably a hazard of her job. But what about a truck driver who contracts TB while confined in his cab with a constantly coughing helper...
...only trouble has come from a U.S. attorney who claimed that a defender's eager student aide deprived him of courtroom "mutuality." Since he himself had no such eager helper, argued the prosecutor, the jury might have been prejudiced. The judge sustained the objection, but Chicago's Program Director Ray Berg is hardly daunted; he hopes soon to enroll all of the city's third-year law students in civil as well as criminal cases...
...Nero Over Me." Born in 1903 near Chillicothe, Ohio, Beatty raised rabbits, guinea pigs and skunks as a boy, at 15 responded to the lure of the circus by signing up as a $3-a-week helper. His goal was to be an acrobat, until he twisted an ankle, got a chance to fill in on a polar bear act ("a bear will bite you ten times to a big cat's one"), and began his career as an animal trainer...