Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stockly came to TIME with the background of a pilot, a cab driver and a steel -mill -worker -turned -reporter who was fired by a newspaper editor with the warning: "You're a fine legman, but you'll never be a good writer as long as you live...
...level of living, and they were afraid it might be folly to take on a whole new family. Mrs. Floyd had seen only two of the children and Floyd himself had seen none of them. They gambled anyhow-in a fashion which would probably have appalled a social worker-and decided almost overnight to adopt the five...
...game as fully as others because he is an indifferent speller. Butts and his wife played the game through the '30s and '40s, and made some 500 sets for their friends and the odd purchaser, but they never put it on the market. In 1948 a social worker named James Brunot took it over and invented the name "Scrabble" (dictionary meaning: "to scrape, paw or scratch with the hands or feet"). He and his wife started making the games themselves in a small workshop at Newtown, Conn. Six months ago, unable to keep up with the burgeoning demand...
...Biblical wine-bibbing from Noah to the marriage at Cana, summed up: "The builders of the Bible saw virtue in the cultivation of the vine and the moderate use of its product." His audience, totally abstaining from applause, preferred the other invited speakers: a basketball star, a social worker, a judge, and two members of Alcoholics Anonymous...
...least some time in 1936" Burck was a member of the Communist Party. Technically, the Government had a case. Born in Poland, Cartoonist Burck (original name: Yakko Bochkowski) came to the U.S. at ten. During the Depression, he was a frequent contributor to Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker, and one day in 1934 he took a party card from a persistent editor in the Worker's office to "keep him quiet." In 1935 he went to Moscow to sell a set of murals. But when he refused to revise the mural to Red specifications, i.e., make Stalin...