Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the Red. The competition to reap these bustling sales has nudged most papers into the red. "Since the war ended, our costs have exceeded our revenues," admitted Association President Chikao Honda. Subscription prices are fantastically low: 84? will buy a month's home delivery of morning and afternoon editions. Promotion prizes are so big that they often cancel out any gain in circulation. Cried Honda: "Our excessive competition is like pulling the legs of a man who is hanging himself...
...reversed the thinking of millenniums on the aging process and the aged. It holds that while aging is inevitable, many of the distressing changes so often seen with it can be palliated, minimized or actually averted. For this reason, Dr. Frederic Zeman, head physician at Manhattan's Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, insists on a semantic distinction, doggedly calls these changes "diseases...
From earliest childhood, Stagg recalls, "we used to give one or two cents as our church contribution." Food was plain but plentiful: home-grown vegetables dominated the table, eked out with home-fattened hogs (whose bladders "Lon" used for "pigskins" and ball tossing). Lon swam and skated, got into one-hand and three-hand baseball...
...time he began to work his way through Orange High School, Stagg was already a zealot about exercise-he ran the mile between home and school both ways. But he insists now: "It wasn't organized athletics-most of my exercise came from hard work, and I had plenty of that." He got much of it in the form of odd jobs, for as much as 25? an hour (a princely sum for a boy during the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes), plus helping his father to mow and cradle hay in the summer...
...after only two days' rest. For a while it looked as if he could bring it off. In the second inning Milwaukee led 2-1, and loaded the bases. But Howard was there again, this time to catch Johnny Logan's short fly, make a perfect peg home to throw out lumbering Andy Pafko by 15 ft. In the tenth inning the ubiquitous Howard singled and scored what proved to be the winning run as the Yankees licked Spahn...