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Word: pickers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...royalties and TV fees, Ernie has bought a cattle ranch, where he spends most of his free time with his wife Betty, a California girl whom he calls "Pumpkin," and two sons, "Buck," 7, and "Little Bit," 4. But his ascent to the title of No. i U.S. Pea Picker has not turned his head or flawed his easy manner. "With TV, you don't have to make folks feel they have to put their coats on for you. You want to leave them with the feeling, 'It's been a nice visit. I sure hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: High-Priced Pea Picker | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...that the folks who made the trouble were "poor white trash," "Michigan farmers," "a lower grade of people that are not exactly civilized." But the heaviest response came from hillbillies who had heard about the series. They called Norma Lee-with embellishments -"nigger-lover," "sewer rat," "D.P.," "Communist," "garbage picker," threatened her with fates ranging from poisoning via "Southern-fried chicken in arsenic" to dismemberment at the hands of "us woman folks." To Editor Kennedy such letters were vivid proof that he had hold of a good story. At week's end he ordered Norma Lee to brave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Anglo-Saxon Migration | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

Raffish characters and an offbeat setting can sometimes save a novel. This is what happens in The Fruit Tramp, a warm-hearted little first book about itinerant fruit and vegetable pickers who traipse along with the harvests. The orphaned hero, Polk Watson, leaves a Georgia farm to hit the picker's trail with his Uncle Chunk, a shrewd, garrulous, gallused cracker who proves to the hilt Author Williams' observation that "no picking machine invented can cup and coax a tomato free like the human hand." Polk grows up in a seedy world of depressing boarding houses, trailer camps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grapes Without Wrath | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

ELIZABETH E. PICKER Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 10, 1956 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...Pickers & Choosers. "All good theories go to America when they die." In the case of Freud this was at least half right. With a thoroughness unmatched elsewhere in the world, psychoanalysis has found its citadel in the U.S. its founder despised. Most of the nation's 750,000 mental patients in understaffed state hospitals still are not reached by modern theory or practice. But the progressive states making radical and energetic attacks on the problem of mental illness are doing so under the leadership of psychiatrists who owe most of their orientation to Freud. Even among psychiatrists who confine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Explorer | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

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