Word: hoboes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Presidential Assistant Anderson should enjoy his new job. In I and Claudie one hobo says, "There is hardly anything that is not in my line . . . It is only when [a man] does the same thing over and over that his talents begin to wither and his spirits to fester up." The NSC's span of global problems is not likely to fester a man's spirits...
From the lettuce fields of California to the steaming Congo of Africa may seem an unusual route to professorship of American Literature at Harvard, but for Perry Gilbert eddy Miller, these are just two ordinary contrasts in a most extraordinary career. One-time hobo, actor, and liberator of Paris, Miller is now a genial and unorthodox expert on the puritan orthodoxy in America, a man who follows Ted Williams' batting averages almost as closely as he scrutinizes Jonathan Edwards' theology...
...good, fast script by Arnold Becker hits only the biggest bumps on the Globetrotters' road to glory: beginning with the team's hobo start in the late '20s, when a few Negro boys tooled through the Midwest in a fourth-hand Pierce Arrow, playing pickup games, winner take all, in barns and dry swimming pools, and ending when the Trotters won a "World Professional Championship Tournament" at Chicago...
After 3½ years of complaining that her estranged husband, Winthrop Rockefeller, 41, kept her "hobo poor" and "starving," Barbara ("Bobo") Rockefeller got a $1,000,000 trust fund that will pay her a tax-free $20,000 a year. Would the fund get father Rockefeller occasional custody of his four-year-old son Winthrop Paul, who already has a $1,000,000 fund of his own? Said Bobo: "The boy is not a can of oil to be shipped over the country...
...Carl Sandburg gave up the idea of committing suicide and decided to become a hobo instead. Young fellows can feel pretty morbid at that age, but the juices of life are running pretty powerfully too. So one day in the summer of 1897, in his home town of Galesburg, Ill., he accepted his mother's kiss and his father's scowl and hit the road...