Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ginger Rap. In Pine Grove, Calif., a ward of the Youth Authority escaped from detention camp, left a note: "I got tired of this place and if you guys want me, you guys got to look for me at home, but please save my cookies until I come back...
Meyner has some presidential handicaps. He was born a Catholic, left the church at 18 and has not joined another (whispers a Kennedy backer: "Meyner's not too popular among Catholics, you know"). He is hardly known outside New Jersey, and his rare ventures away from home have been singularly unfortunate. In a nine-state speaking tour last August, he chose a shirtsleeved Minnesota farm audience, ready to plow under Ezra Benson, to lecture on the subject of "The Current Congressional Inquiry into the Operation of the Federal Regulatory Agencies...
...Brown, 49, married California's Governor-elect Pat Brown in 1930, has four children, two grandchildren. Never intensely interested in politics, she hugged the background until Pat announced for the gubernatorial race. She did not approve of his running, much less the prospect of leaving their Forest Hill home in San Francisco for the Governor's mansion in Sacramento, but she jumped into the campaign with surprising verve, even left her sickbed (phlebitis) against doctors' orders to make the election-night rounds with him. Gifted with lively wit, Bernice Brown showed a great talent for joshing...
Other events last week in the nation's struggle between racial rights and wrongs: ¶In Pittsburgh's Beechview section, where Negro Charles Miller's new home was smeared and smashed by race baiters, white neighbors finished a repair and repaint job with materials bought by the Board of Trade, Lions Club, American Legion and other civic groups. ¶ Georgia's Governor-elect Ernest Vandiver warned that he would close Atlanta schools if they were integrated by pending court cases, was met by Atlanta Mayor William Berry Hartsfield's demand that the city have...
...Monstrously Alone." After a tour of camps for displaced persons ("Our century has probably created no image more terrible than the one evoked by that expression"), he set up a network of godparents who "adopted" D.P. families. Relying solely on gifts, he opened a home for aged refugees in Huy. later opened three more in other Belgian towns. But he soon came to realize that providing food and money was doing next to nothing to cure "the malady...