Word: pa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pa survived only a few years, but Ma was made of fiercer things. Having quit her teaching job to take care of the two babies, Joseph and Suzanne, she began to give private lessons in French and to play the piano at a moviehouse named the "Eden." In twelve grim years she saved enough money to buy a government land concession on a plain bordering...
...biggest U.S. cities had so distinguished a beginning as Perryopolis, Pa. (pop. 1,500), an unsung & forgotten hamlet in the coal fields 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. George Washington himself bought land on the town's present site back in 1770, and built a grist mill near by. According to local legend, he also suggested the circular-street plan upon which the village is built, although he sold out (1,643 acres for $4,000) long before 1814, when Perryopolis, named for Naval Hero Oliver Hazard Perry, was actually begun...
Died. Allan Shaw Haywood, 64, who rose from pitboy at 13 to be executive vice president and chief organizer of the C.I.O.; of a heart attack; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Hardworking, hard-drinking Allan Haywood, born a miner's son in Yorkshire. England, came to the U.S. in 1906. He followed John L. Lewis and Philip Murray up labor's ladder, recruited unions for the C.I.O., stuck with Murray when Lewis made his trumpeting breakaway in 1942. As right-hand man to ailing President Murray, Haywood seemed heir apparent, but after Murray's death last November...
Hard Knocks. Gwilym (Welsh for William) Price has been shaped by hard work and ambition. The shaping began in the hard-scrabbling mine and mill town of Cannonsburg, Pa., where his father, Welsh-born John Llewellyn Price, worked as a roller in a tin mill when he wasn't striking for the old Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. When the men were out, the cupboard was bare, and Bill Price early began piecing out the family income by running errands and clerking nights in a store. At 16, when his father died suddenly, Bill...
...teen-age audience that the moviemakers are trying to lure away from television sets. As for practical Rosemary, she has always had her eyes firmly fixed on the movies. "It gets me out of the hit-record class," she says. "Even a B-player is hot stuff in Monessen, Pa. On records you're only as good as your last release...