Word: quittings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...copyreader and sometime rewrite man on the Wall Street Journal was having a hard time establishing his identity. "Quit your kidding!" he would be told when answering his phone or calling for information. But he really was Winston Churchill, 18, handsome grandson of Sir Winston himself. Young Journalist Churchill, son of Journalist Randolph Churchill, is spending the summer in Manhattan, working at the Journal for experience and for nothing (his student visa bars him from a paying job), will go to Oxford this fall...
Nuts & Taboos. Sustaining himself on a diet of nuts and oranges (he had quit drinking) and working until all hours of the night, Sarit became not only Premier but the nation's chief fireman, policeman and garbage collector. He commanded housewives to hang their laundry out of sight, abolished pushcarts, opened sheltered markets, dispatched dredges to the silted canals, bought 60 new garbage trucks for Bangkok, ordered pedicabs off the street. When a rash of fires broke out in the business district last winter. Sarit raced to the scene one night, ordered four Chinese merchants shot on the spot...
...wanted to hoe cotton-those guys got $3 a day. But I wasn't big enough." So Ussery turned instead to picking spinach (10? for every 20 Ibs.). By seventh grade, he knew where easier money lay: "I couldn't ride and go to school too. I quit school...
Middlesex-born Vicar Strong first took up his double life during World War II, when he served a village near Dover as vicar and simultaneously worked as a coalfield pitman. Hampered by unenthusiastic superiors and sheer exhaustion. Strong had to quit for a while, but in 1955 he took a job as an oil-meter checker in a factory, was appointed curate in Harlington, and won the backing of his bishop...
...Getty II, 35, who has spent only six weeks with his father since the first year of his life, still refers to him as "Mr. Getty." But his father keeps in close touch on business matters, sends him as many as 20 notes a week from abroad. George, who quit Princeton after only one year ("I knew I wanted to go into the oil business, so why waste time?"), has been put in charge of streamlining the Getty domain. He worked in most of its outposts, was made president of Tidewater in May 1958 and shook up management...