Word: hoping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes no claims to being an earth-shaking actor. He is a competent performer, a family man with two teenagers to send through college, a Long Island Sunday-school teacher and a prisoner of fate, zealously determined "to get out of that damned Video suit." As a last hope, he has resorted to disguise. He has landed a role in a forthcoming TV pilot film in which he will clap on a talcumed wig and, with his identity concealed, impersonate George Washington. Says reluctant Spaceman Hodge: "What is good enough for the Father of Our Country is certainly good enough...
...Hope & Help. One day in 1955, Ken Hager seemed to see himself for the first time. "I realized I was on the road to hell and that nothing could help me but God. It seemed I couldn't get to him fast enough." He quit drinking, joined a Nazarene church, and began going to work an hour early each morning to study his Bible. But a pious cop is not necessarily a good cop. Police Chief Dallas Bias found the new Hager "ineffectual" because he kept trying to help suspects instead of digging up evidence and hammering out confessions...
...three police families from breaking up, and prompted a dozen police officers to join churches. In municipal court Hager sits next to Judge James McWhorter every morning so that he can prepare for follow-up work with defendants. Among the winos of Summers Street he is a symbol of hope and help, has managed to rehabilitate a dozen drunks...
...that the late Father Damien's famed settlement for leprosy patients on the Hawaiian island of Molokai is being opened to tourists. From a peak of 1,180 active cases in 1890, the settlement today has only 75. Since some 150 recovered patients prefer to remain, officials hope to give them a livelihood as guides and taxi drivers by encouraging outside visitors...
Smith: I prefer less spectacular methods. Public works is a good starter, especially since many projects, such as highways, need doing anyway. Housing should be stimulated, and I have the pious but not unreasonable hope that we can get better houses. Urban renewal is a necessity, depression or no. Unemployment compensation should be increased to relieve distress...