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When Bill was nine, his father, a welder, joined the Navy and left home, returning only occasionally at first, and then not at all. The main man in the youngster's life became his maternal grandfather Samuel Russell. "He loved to tell stories that had some moral point about getting an education, working hard," Bill recalls, "but you'd hardly notice because he'd be so funny and ramble around so much." Russell encouraged the yarns of his precocious eldest grandson. At the end of a session, he would fish around in a sock full of change that was tied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I Do Believe in Control | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

Nevertheless, Smith took the stand to give an emotional account of the experiences that led her father, a soft-spoken welder at the Santa Fe railroad yards and assistant pastor of St. John's African Methodist Episcopal Church, to join the N.A.A.C.P.'s legal struggle against segregation. She described the "feelings of inferiority" suffered by her children because they attended schools that were considered "black" though large numbers of white children attended them. Her lawyers contended that many of Topeka's schools remain "racially identifiable" because of a preponderance of black or white students. They argued that schools with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Heirs of Oliver Brown | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

Many workers fall victim to business cycles that sharply cut the going rate for their skills. Patrick Walter was comfortably supporting his wife and their two children on his $35,000 pay as a welder on an oil rig off the Louisiana coast when the petroleum price slump hit and cost him his job. Says he: "It doesn't take long for everything to go to hell. I might never make what I used to." Walter and his family packed up and migrated to Oregon, where they moved in with his wife's parents, and he took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Middle Class Shrinking? | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...circus colleagues. Everywhere one looks on the lot (that is circus argot, the lot; townsfolk who come to gawk before the show are called, uncharitably, lot lice) there are people doing a dozen jobs, saying nothing else beats the life. Dennis Harvey, ringmaster, welder, electrician: "I'm more settled here than anywhere, strange as it sounds. It's like joining a family." Moira Loter, bareback rider, aerialist, jackie-of-all-trades: "I've lived in a house. You always want to go back on the road." Carlos Bautista, whose family, when not being catapulted off a teeterboard, performs, according...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Oklahoma: a Big Top Moves Out | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...ever hope to impress upon the contemplative VES student the beauty of a proper marriage of form and function when her dining hall toaster, with the facade of an oxyactylene welder, can not even thaw her single Eggo waffle...

Author: By Barne C. Ellis, | Title: Charred Mornings | 11/6/1985 | See Source »

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