Word: plumber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appearance of a new writer whose viewpoint is mature and who knows how to say exactly what he means is something of a literary event. Author Wallant. 34, is such a writer. His first book deals skillfully with an unlikely subject-the grief of a 59-year-old plumber after the sudden death of his wife...
...Arvada, Colo., pretty Shirley Jean Havens, 21, wife of a young plumber, registered as a Republican. Last November Shirley Jean wrote President Eisenhower and Harry Truman asking their advice on how to cast her first vote. Truman sent her a grumpy reply, advising her to read her history books, but Ike responded by aiming a national fund-raising address at the young woman and thrusting her into the national spotlight (TIME, Feb. 8). What finally made up her mind to be a Republican, she said, was unfair Democratic criticism of Ike over the U-2 incident...
...born 317 years after his death, scrubbed herself only once a month, "whether she needed it or no." Thus it may be seen that the history of the human race's sanitary habits is by no means an unchecked upward gush. British Expert Wright-an architect, not a plumber-charts the flow with scholarship, wit, and handsome illustrations ; the resulting volume is better bathtub reading than most recent novels...
Political Morticians. Ike's frankly political speech was couched in the form of a reply to Mrs. Shirley Jean Havens, 21, wife of Arvada (Colo.) Plumber William M. Havens, and mother of two. Last November she wrote the President asking for a statement of Republican principles. (Two months later she was tactfully scouted by Ike's old friend, Denver Banker Aksel Nielsen, who subsequently promised she would be answered by TV and swore her to secrecy.) "It is true," said Ike, "that government has to do many things which, individually, we cannot do for ourselves . . . But the principle...
...California, the Nicholas du Fonts of Delaware, General Motors' President John F. Gordon, Chrysler Corp.'s President Lester ("Tex") Colbert, as well as the bejeweled cream of Boston, Philadelphia and Palm Beach society. They promenaded-past 35 car parkers, 16 security men and a formally attired plumber and electrician-through the heavily screened men's locker room into the reception room, where 18-year-old Charlotte, blooming in her Yves St. Laurent (white strapless) exclusive, waited with her parents, her Sister Anne, 16, and her kid Brother Edsel. 11. "Daddy," nagged Edsel, "Will they play When...