Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dinner at the home of Minister of State Raul Roa, and talked until 2:30 a.m. Bonsai had sore topics to fire away at, including 1) fair-compensation for the $300 million in U.S. sugar holdings now facing expropriation, 2) the 21% rate slash forced on the $272 million U.S.-controlled-Cuban Electric Co., and 3) the 87 U.S. citizens arrested over the past eight months...
...Margareta Hagerty, 30, daughter-in-law of Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty, went to court in Alexandria. Va., walked out a U.S. citizen. Daughter of a Swedish minister, she arrived in the U.S. in 1951, went to work as a governess in the home of a Swedish U.N. delegate, married Marine Lieut, (now Captain; Roger Carl Hagerty in 1955, is the mother of Jim Hagerty's two grandchildren...
...chemical labs, plans to test food products, toilet goods and cosmetics in an attempt to catch up with Good Housekeeping's seal of approval testing program. Indeed, Herb Mayes's plans for McCall's have few limits: he predicts he will overtake the Ladies' Home Journal (circ. 5,685,245), grande dame of the women's magazines, "within less than two years...
...ground. Until a fortnight ago, when they gambled that Pittsburgh's Ted Kluszewski had conquered his bad back and picked up the muscular first baseman on waivers, the White Sox did not have a man who could clout the long ball. The team trails the majors in home runs with a measly 81; team batting average is .252, sixth in the league...
...grinding corn of Fabian or Frankie Avalon. or the molasses-slow maundering of Johnny Mathis. Lola, who must settle for less, deserves more. She has been learning her trade, scrabbling at the edges of show business, ever since she sang Listen to the Mocking Bird at her home-town Y.W.C.A. in Akron 25 years ago. She was a gawky ten-year-old then, defiant of her parents' dislike of anything that smacked of entertainment. Today, at 35, she sometimes concludes that show business has been defying...