Word: plainfield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acre farm outside Plainfield, Wis. where George Gein was scratching out a living, the undisputed head of the family was his dominating wife Augusta. To her sons Henry and Edward, Augusta Gein railed ceaselessly about the vices of modern women?their short skirts, artificial hair waves, powder and lipstick. During heavy rains she would read to the family the story of Noah and the flood, prophesied another flood to wash out women's sins. She made no secret of her favoritism for her younger son. Eddie Gein (rhymes with wean) became a mama's boy, hating other women as mother...
Princely Guests. While Kelley and Costes trained near Boston, the dour Finns jogged doggedly through the hills near Plainfield, Conn., where a group of Finnish-Americans had set up training facilities for Eino Oksanen, a Helsinki detective, and Antti Viskari, Finnish army sergeant, whose trip to the U.S. for the race was financed by the U.S. Finnish-American colony...
...Congress. Created in 1932, the Sixth Congressional District in northern Jersey had never elected a Democrat. Nevertheless, a young (33) lawyer from Plainfield named Harrison A. ("Pete") William Jr.* decided he had a chance...
...narrow-brim hat. He knew that Republican Representative Clifford Case, who had resigned . to take a Ford Foundation job, was highly popular. So he promised to follow in Case's voting footsteps: e.g., he promised wholehearted support of the Eisenhower foreign policy. Williams' Republican opponent was another Plainfield lawyer, George Hetfield. The Democratic nominee had once served as the Hetfields' baby sitter, later was a law clerk in Hetfield's office. But he quickly found a label for his old friend: "An Old Guard Republican...
...Plainfield was plain delighted. All told, Milt had racked up 7,235 points in history's fourth best decathlon performance. Though holding a fistful of bids to attend more than 50 U.S. colleges, U.S. Decathlon Champion Campbell is looking far beyond college and the 1956 Olympics. He well knows that the rigorous decathlon is mostly a young man's game. With no appetite for professional athletics, Milt wants to become an industrial public-relations...