Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Percy Harrison, who worked in a Lincolnshire fertilizer factory, was a stranger to the pools. A farm laborer most of his life, Harrison, 52, had seldom earned more than $40 a week. He and his buxom wife Maude had raised four daughters and a son, and Maude still picked potatoes to help meet the $14 a month payments on their cottage. Harrison had seldom been outside his village, and never to London -or to a soccer game. For the first time in his life, three weeks ago he took a 140 flutter. It brought him a $1.40 windfall...
...universal question of innocent man put to nothing by guilty authority. His hero is a Jew whose complaint against Gentiles is not that they are not Jews but that they are not Christians. He is called Yakov Bok (a name that suggests scapegoat), a Russian who is a stranger to Russia, who makes himself a stranger to his own Jewish tradition, and who is finally a stranger to everyone but the reader...
...paint in our household," says Ann, who modeled for the little girl in The Scottish Chiefs and is the wife of Wyeth-trained Artist John McCoy II. Henriette, who was one of three boys in her father's illustration for Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger, is a painter and the wife of a painter, Peter Hurd. Most famous of all: Andrew Wyeth, 49, who last posed for his father in Anthony Adverse...
Polish & Thrust. Though no stranger to finance, Sherfield will be the first nonbanker to preside over one of London's 16 elite merchant banks that, with Bank of England backing, "accept," or guarantee payment of, commercial debts. The lanky (6 ft. 4½ in.) son of Boer War Hero Brigadier General Sir Ernest Makins, Sherfield since 1964 has been chairman of the Industrial & Commercial Finance Corp., a collective venture of English and Scottish banks that provides credit to small businessmen...
...lanes go "wandering, gutterless, glistening in heat or rain, taking gasping names-forged Indian, appropriated Anglo-Saxon, elated misnomers." His satire, however, is subtle and precise, as when he sums up his hero in one exquisitely sly little slide-away line: "I never had a chance to be a stranger myself...