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Real escape can only be found by getting in the car and driving away. They finally decide to go to Chicago ("Chi"), where Gunner has a vague offer to work for an ad-agency. "They came roaring into Chi through a night torched by the steel-mill fires, eerie and hellish," writes Wakefield. They reach a curve in the road and Sonny fumbles, realizing it is "too late, too late even to put on the brake." They head straight into a cement abutment and then smash...
Deciding to call himself the Fox after the county's Fox River, he struck first at a major soap company that was pouring pollutants into a tributary called Mill Creek. The Fox dumped a truckload of rocks, straw and logs into the factory's sewage outlet to block it, then repeated his imaginative vandalism twice in ensuing weeks. The last time he was nearly captured by company security guards who had staked out the area...
...more involved social activism that is sweeping the church today. The new head of the Boston archdiocese was born in the Portuguese Azores in the North Atlantic. He emigrated to Massachusetts with his family in 1931 at age 15, and took a job sweeping floors in a local textile mill for 620 a day, studying English in his spare time. After graduating from high school in Fall River, Mass., Medeiros decided to enter the priesthood. He was ordained in Washington, D.C., and took an M.A. in philosophy in 1942, then a Ph.D. in sacred theology in 1952 at Catholic University...
...neighed, hogs squealed. Dust and diesel fumes mixed with the sweet prairie air and the scent of frying bacon spewing from the kitchen exhaust fans. On U.S. 66 in Illinois, the truck stops have names like Tiny's, the 66 Terminal Café, El Roy's, the Mill, the Fleetwood. They are the sort of place that serves Ann Page cherry pie with Sealtest ice cream heaped on plastic plates. With the pork chops or cube steak or fried chicken come piles of mashed potatoes and canned creamed corn or cut green beans. The Dixie puts...
Fairchild arrived in New York with an audacious plan: to attempt a madcap, Tom Jones-style conquest of the fashion industry by wrapping Seventh Avenue, high fashion and the Beautiful People into one publication. Run-of-the-mill reporters for WWD continued to trudge up and down Seventh Avenue, feeding needle-and-thread stories to rewrite men and women back on Twelfth Street. But, with his pack in full cry, Fairchild rode off in hot pursuit of scoops, gossip and scandal...