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When the century was younger and Motown was Boomtown, jobs were for the picking on the conveyor belts of Detroit. Forrest Jones got one, leaving behind the dust of Piggott, Ark. So did Paul Youker's father, trading hard times in New York to be a security guard for General Motors. Terrace Turner's father got another, moving north from Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southward Ho for Jobs | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...body of his father the conglomerate chief, who had driven off a cliff during his annual convalescence at a resort south of Naples. But Wendell learns, to his dismay, that his nearly seventy-year-old father had led a ten-summer secret Amalfi life and died intertwined with Kate Piggott, mother of Pamela Piggott (Juliet Mills)--a British "bird" who's come to bury Mummy...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Realemmon but Sweet | 12/19/1972 | See Source »

...real change in the man occurs. At first he has a sense of propriety, if not of morality, telling him philandering may be excused but romance may not. In the end, it seems, he has discovered the essence of love. He has taken up with the empathetic Miss Piggott, allowed his father's burial in Italy alongside old Kate, and even faked out the State Department. Avanti' presents Wendell's a change as speciously as a resort presents paradise to its guests...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Realemmon but Sweet | 12/19/1972 | See Source »

...latest dig was made in 1950 by Stuart Piggott, professor of prehistoric history at the University of Edinburgh. In untouched areas he uncovered the bits of charcoal that were sent to Professor Libby in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How Old Is Stonehenge? | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

...blind date one night in 1934 Keef met Nancy Piggott, a lively redhead who was visiting her well-to-do aunt in Chattanooga. Nancy was an American girl born near Glasgow, Scotland. Her U.S.-born father, Stephen Piggott, was a designer of marine engines for a Scottish firm, became a British subject and was subsequently knighted. Keef followed Nancy home to Scotland, and married her there. Back in Chattanooga, Keef's new wife-witty, wise and devoted-was a great social asset to a close-mouthed young lawyer. They were a popular couple. In 1937 the Chattanooga Junior Chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Rise of Senator Legend | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

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