Word: lawns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With 60,000 words already ghostwritten Michael Chaplin was suddenly having some second thoughts about the unfilial opus due out next month called I Couldn't Smoke the Grass on My Father's Lawn. Father Charlie had decided long ago that he didn't like the fumes of his beatnik boy either, but even with the family feud Michael was beginning to worry that Grass was a bit thick, asked a London High Court justice to suppress the book because it exploited "the piquancy of a situation where the son of a famous man is shown...
...weakness for vodka that had earned him a record of minor brushes with the law, Army Veteran Carl Holm, 28, voluntarily went to a veterans mental hospital in Sheridan, Wyo. When he was given town privileges, though, Holm wasted no time getting drunk and passing out on the hospital lawn. "It's my opinion," said a harried doctor after locking up the patient, "that you're a hopeless alcoholic and should spend the rest of your life in this ward...
...into the God game back in 1907, the pantheon was packed. What with such ranking deities as Father Obey, Elijah of the Fiery Chariot, St. John the Vine, and Joe World, among many others, the heavenly host could hardly muster enough worshipers to go around. So George, an itinerant lawn mower and hedge clipper from Georgia, settled for an apprentice apostleship - a "God in the Sonship Degree" - with Father Jehovia, a former Pittsburgh steelworker who had a cult in Baltimore...
...lives with his wife Betty and their nine children in the former British Governor's residence, a vast colonial mansion whose 400-acre lawn is dotted with flowering gardens, a swimming pool and a duck pond. He rarely has time to enjoy it. An indefatigable worker, he is so busy that his appointment calendar is booked three weeks in advance and he often receives visitors at 7 a.m. over breakfast or 11 p.m. over supper. To remind his people that "the good things of life come only with hard labor," Kaunda and his ministers regularly show up wielding shovels...
Neighbors could hardly help but notice the strange things going on at the home of the Preble Stravers in Bethesda, Md. Two days after the Stravers left on vacation, another family moved into their house, drove about in their car and frolicked on the front lawn with the pets. Meanwhile, residents in Clearwater, Fla., were equally startled. Shortly after they saw Mrs. Jess Thacker (a widow) and her three children pile into her car with suitcases, another family arrived and made themselves at home...