Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman and other Democratic leaders were in control." Looking around at his new friends and foes. Homer Capehart thought it was time to redefine his position. "I am a free enterpriser," he said. "I am so independent as a businessman, and individually, that I do not even like to sleep in a little room; I like to sleep in a big room. I do not want to be hemmed in from any direction...
...repair the effects of a serious auto accident suffered 22 years ago. Next day, conscious of his duty to his public and perhaps alarmed by a hint of bad publicity, Godfrey gave an interview to 16 members of the local press. Wearing a boldly patterned aloha shirt ("I never sleep in anything else"), Godfrey posed for pictures. He hugged his nurse and hung Tarzanlike from an overhead bed trapeze. He explained away the business at the airport by saying: "I didn't want any one hit by a propeller." The press departed to fill their columns with emotional stories...
...hero is Sid Sorokin, late of Chicago and Regal Pants Inc. Sid is plant superintendent for Sleep Tite now, and Sleep Tite (the Pa jama for Men of Bedroom Discrimination) is booming. The trouble is that the union is demanding a 7½-cents-an-hour raise, and pulling a' slowdown to get it. Sid's problem is complicated by the fact that his boss, Mr. Hasler, is determined not to knuckle under to the union, while Sid's girl, redheaded Babe Williams, is one of the union ringleaders...
...hands of some novelists, these slight and slightly forbidding materials would send readers of all ages straight to their Sleep Tites. Author Bissell keeps his book moving by devices of his own-and by not worrying much about his plot...
...been taken down on a recorder. ("Oh my god last week he went to Dr. Baumer and what do they find but a zist on the gooms. He couldn't hardly eat no Sunday dinner. A nice goose I had, too.") Sid Sorokin gets fed up and quits Sleep Tite. taking his luscious redhead with him, but the exact resolution of the plot isn't really important to Author Bissell or anyone else. It is the natural talk, the sure feeling for the pace of Midwestern life, the shrewd humor of such scenes as the union picnic, that...