Word: hobe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a rough but remarkably successful legislative session, Pennsylvania's Republican Governor William W. Scranton, 46, flew to his vacation abode at Hobe Sound, Fla. He spent a couple of weeks playing tennis, reading books (17 in all) and trying to relax. He also dropped in on some old friends in the neighborhood, but after a few such visits his rest was almost ruined. Repeatedly, Scranton was given a sly wink, told what a cagey fellow he was to pretend that he didn't really want the 1964 G.O.P, presidential nomination, and assured that his political strategy...
...Aunt Gert and Uncle Walter Snyder worked for the Scrantons for some 42 years. At Hobe Sound, Fla., one night, a tanker was torpedoed off the coast. The "Duchess," as you called her, and my Aunt Gert and Uncle Walt helped all of the survivors into the elegantly furnished Scranton winter home. About 100 oil-soaked sailors were given blankets, cigarettes, coffee, sandwiches. Mrs. Scranton was up all night helping to make the men comfortable...
Died. Rollin Henry White. 90. pioneer Ohio automaker who in 1899 developed a flash boiler that propelled White Steamers down the highway just two years after the famed Stanleys, in 1906 helped found White Motor Co., the U.S.'s largest independent truck manufacturer; in Hobe Sound...
...backwoods, off-the-map hamlet that he calls Hobe's Hill, Agee and Evans lived with a tenant farmer named George Gudger, made frequent side visits to the ramshackle farms of Fred Ricketts and Bud Woods. Tennessee-born Jim Agee felt the call of blood as well as the vast bond of compassion, since his father's people had come down from the hills back of Knoxville. But Agee also felt that he was an alien and a spy, prying into the lives of an "undefended and appallingly damaged group of human beings." He tried to find...