Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outfitted for school. The glare of U.S.rockets had mostly quieted the nervous outcry that arose after the Soviet's Sputnik I, and U.S. missile progress was continuing apace. The U.S. Capitol, seething with the great labor-reform battle, was buried in a Niagara of mail from the home folks. Western Union's Capitol branch put its employees on a twelve-hour overtime schedule to handle the torrent of telegrams. (Higher above Capitol Hill, workmen discovered that the Goddess of Freedom on top of the dome was coming apart at the seams, and a bronze girdle was ordered...
Never have I read an article that captured "home" so well for me as did your Aug. 10 cover story on Hawaii. Yes, my school diplomas are signed by Oren E. Long; yes, I remember Dan Inouye on the campus and in the classrooms...
...became a trustee of a Chicago Teamster local. In 1956, when Ricca was in trouble with the law and needed money urgently, Hoffa's own Local 299 and another Detroit local headed by Hoffa Pal Bert Brennan, now a Teamsters international vice president, jointly purchased Ricca's home in Long Beach, Ind. for $150,000. Appraised value: $85,000. Hoffa explained that the two locals planned to turn the house into a training school for Teamster business agents. Not one has been trained there...
...growing supply of fans, just one song would be enough. Last week, when Felicia ended her run and went home to Brewster, N.Y. for a vacation, the Bon Soir's owners could think of no better time to shut up shop and take a vacation themselves. Where would they find a summer substitute for Sanders? Worse yet, where will they find a substitute in the fall? By then, Felicia will probably be in Los Angeles with her son Jeff, 13, and her husband-accompanist, Irv Joseph. "Milton Berle wants to present me at the Crescendo," she says, and adds...
WHEN Rockefeller turns a profit, he gives most of it to some 200 charities. But he likes to live well. He collects paintings (about 100 by Gainsborough, Bonnard, Vlaminck, etc.), houses (a Fifth Avenue duplex, an estate on the Hudson, a 15-room summer home on Fishers Island-a millionaire's retreat 135 miles from New York), cars (a Bentley, a Cadillac, four others). He loves speed, often commutes in his fast 65-ft. aluminum P-T boat to his office in the RCA Building at Rockefeller Center (of which he is chairman). He enjoys muscle-straining outdoor exercise...