Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week Bill Graham was looking right in his own backyard for business ideas to encourage. Onto a statewide TV hookup from Wichita's KAKE-TV went the first of twelve TV programs called Opportunity Knocks that will award up to $75,000 in financial backing to the best home-grown ideas for small business...
...Jessie C. Lee, a widowed tourist-home operator in Albany, N.Y., the friendly letter from the local Arthur Murray School of Dancing was an invitation to waltz into a new and more exciting life. She signed up for dancing lessons, paid higher and higher fees to win the privilege of attending parties and other extra functions at the school. After six weeks, she was persuaded to sign up for an $11,800 lifetime membership. One of the school instructors thoughtfully accompanied her home and to the bank to round up the payment. But with half her life's savings...
...taken a shine to. Item by item he pawns the rich man's bibelots to buy the best of paints, the finest of champagne. Six weeks later, when the unwitting host and hostess walk in the front door, they stare in stupor at the devastation of their home-not to mention the wall, which looks as though it had been struck by an avalanche of garbage-and then sink quietly through a 6-ft. hole that somebody has carelessly knocked in the floor...
Less U, More H. Co-Author Frank's tear-shot camera eye pans in on Sheilah Graham when she was still Lily Sheil, a grimy Cockney moppet of six being carted away to the East London Home for Orphans. The eight orphanage years were Dickensian. Eventually Lily found a job as a skivy (housemaid) but soon chucked it. She had a chance to demonstrate a U-shaped toothbrush ("It fits the inside of your teeth") and her pearly performance caught the eye of U-born Major John Graham Gillam, D.S.O. It was a case of an 18-year...
...Togo. At that point in June 1904, Czar Nicholas II decided on a last, desperate gamble to relieve the Russian forces; he ordered Vice Admiral Zinovi Petrovitch Rozhestvensky to sail four brand-new Suvoroff battleships at the head of a task force of some 40 ships from their Baltic home ports to the Sea of Japan, by way of the Cape of Good Hope. In this book London Editor Richard Hough tells how a fleet that should never have gone to sea made its way 18,000 miles to its rendezvous with death...