Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joan Stocker, 18, was fed up. She and her husband, a U.S. Air Force sergeant, had been living in England for several months and boarding with English families. One day, from Newmarket in Suffolk, she sent a sizzling letter to her hometown paper, the Palo Alto (Calif.) Times. "We are writing," she said, "to let you people back home know just what is going on in the minds of the English . . . They believe [Americans] all have big houses, strings of cars, closets full of clothes and more money than we know what to do with. They charge us all fabulous...
...only people who weren't outraged were the Stockers' landlords, Postman Sid Taylor and his wife; they were upset. "It's a great pity Joan wrote the letter," said
Alarmed by the outcry, Joan ducked out of sight. "I dare not leave the house," she said. "The local people might go for me." Said Sergeant Stocker: "As far as I am concerned, the neighbors can complain until their eyes drop...
...Force public relations officers rushed around trying to soothe the townsfolk; at an Anglo-American garden party they talked hands across the sea and dismissed Joan Stocker as an impulsive youngster. At week's end, under their prodding eye, she issued a formal statement: "I would like to emphasize very strongly that I was not referring to the town of Newmarket . . . Our rent is just . . . The neighbors . . . have all been swell ... I am proud to live in Newmarket." Newmarket calmed down a bit again...
Father's Little Dividend. In a lively sequel to the original Spencer Tracy-Joan Bennett-Elizabeth Taylor comedy, the Father of the Bride becomes a grandfather (TIME, April...