Word: milkman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubled since 1939, with a 19% rise since 1954 alone. "At least 20% of my students have some real ambition for a profession," says a London primary school headmistress. "Before the war, hardly a single one would have presumed to think so far above his station." Says a London milkman: "If I'd 'ad chances wot my son 'as, I wouldn't be just a milkman, not bleedin' likely...
When the umpires called time, after two men were out in the bottom of the fourth the varsity already had a 2-0 lead, the result of A1 Martin's homer in the third. With two out, a 3-2 count and Dick Shima on third, Milkman Martin leaned into a high fastball served by sophomore lefthander John Whitney and belted it over the running track into the left field stands...
...children in the play lend some disturbing elements--they were often self-consciously cute and occasionally betrayed sophisticated accents which grated against the rural informality of the play. But otherwise, from the alcoholic organist to the milkman, there was little that seemed out of the Grovers Corners "ordinary...
Died. Arthur Stassen, 49, director of the petroleum division of the Minnesota state tax department, who left his job as a milkman to take a position in the state government when his 31-year-old brother Harold Stassen, sometime Pullman conductor, became Governor in 1939; of a heart attack; in St. Paul...
...then faked a couple of postcards and tried to bribe two 16-year-old mail sorters (with $3,000 each) to slip the doctored cards into the show's regular mail. The kids told the story to the cops, and when two detectives came for the Machiavellian milkman, he tried to take it on the lam. A warning shot fired over his head ricocheted off a building, hit him in the cheek and landed him in the hospital. Said his wife: "I tried to get him to quit, but all he cared about was that show...