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Author: T. K. O'Neill Publisher: eBookIt.com ISBN: 0967200644 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 262
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It's March of 1978 and a battered, steaming wreck lays at the bottom of a 50-foot cliff. Former boxing champion and football star Johnny Beam is found crumpled and broken behind the steering wheel. Beam was a gambler, in trouble with the law--and now dead. Was it an accident? Suicide? Murder? How did the former hero end up like this? In the lily-white northern town of Zenith, Minnesota, only one thing was certain: Johnny Beam stood out like a fly in a bottle of milk. Fly in the Milk is a work of crime fiction, a provocative tale of death, betrayal and hypocrisy spanning three generations.
Author: T. K. O'Neill Publisher: eBookIt.com ISBN: 0967200644 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 262
Book Description
It's March of 1978 and a battered, steaming wreck lays at the bottom of a 50-foot cliff. Former boxing champion and football star Johnny Beam is found crumpled and broken behind the steering wheel. Beam was a gambler, in trouble with the law--and now dead. Was it an accident? Suicide? Murder? How did the former hero end up like this? In the lily-white northern town of Zenith, Minnesota, only one thing was certain: Johnny Beam stood out like a fly in a bottle of milk. Fly in the Milk is a work of crime fiction, a provocative tale of death, betrayal and hypocrisy spanning three generations.
Author: Herb Carnegie Publisher: ECW Press ISBN: 1773053795 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 256
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Revised and updated with commentary from Bernice Carnegie, Herb’s daughter, and life lessons passed from father to daughter Herbert Carnegie was the complete hockey package in the 1940s and 1950s. Though his contributions to society both in sport and education have been referenced and profiled in books, documentaries, and thousands of articles, this is Carnegie’s own account of striving to break the glass ceiling, starting with his career as a professional hockey player on all-white teams. In 1978, noted hockey journalist Stan Fischler wrote a powerful headline about Carnegie: “Born Too Soon.” A Fly in a Pail of Milk reveals the feelings of a trailblazer — a man who proved to be unstoppable on the ice and in his resolve to make our world a better place. In this new edition, Herb’s daughter Bernice Carnegie shares stories about what it was like to work closely with Herb on youth and educational projects for more than 30 years. She also reflects on parts of her father’s writings, sharing personal thoughts, family stories, and conversations about how his journey profoundly influenced her life.
Author: Shirley Friedman Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1524676284 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 215
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Flies in the Milk is the true story about the difficulties of two unhappy people in search of love in the 1960s Sando, an Israeli Secret Agent, and Shirley, actress and singer. They meet by chance in Johannesburg, and Sando phones for a date. When she reluctantly agrees, his strange question I wont come like a fly in the milk? reveals to Shirley a desperate need for love. Soon Sando is head-over-heels, but Shirley discovers he is married. She leaves to sing with a band in Salisbury, and when Sando follows, realises she loves him. When called back to Israel, he is interrogated when he passes through the Suez Canal and hailed as a hero, but miserable without his love, he sends her a plea to join him. The bliss of their reunion is soon marred, and though Sando is now divorced, they have to leave the country immediately. Their travels through seven countries are fraught with difficulties bad accommodation, accusation of stealing, no work and very little money, amongst others. Then, finally almost home, theres an horrific car accident and death.
Author: Cecil Reed Publisher: University of Iowa Press ISBN: 9781587292002 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 212
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Born in 1913 in Collinsville, Illinois, Cecil Reed has lived all of his life in the Midwest as a black man among whites. This self-styled fly in the buttermilk worked among whites with such skill and grace that they were barely aware of his existence - unless he wanted to get a bank loan or move into their neighborhood. Now, in his lively and optimistic autobiography, he speaks of his resilience throughout a life spent working peacefully but passionately for equality. As a teenager and young man, Cecil Reed was the black waiter, the short-order cook, the paper carrier, the tap dancer and singer, the carpenter, and the maintenance man who learned to survive in a white society. As an adult in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he inched his way into owning several small businesses, convincing the community to accept him and his family through hard work and creativity. When whites felt besieged by black militants in the sixties, they turned to him for less threatening advice and leadership. Reed put away his floor sander and became an inspiring speaker who crisscrossed the country offering solutions to civil rights problems. In 1966, Reed was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives, the first and only black Republican to hold this office. His next major triumph: securing a unanimous vote of approval for the state's fair housing bill. Within a year he was appointed by a Democratic governor to the Iowa Employment Security Commission, becoming the first black commissioner in America. Thus began a twenty-year career in public service in both state and federal positions that brought him into partnership with the nation's political, economic, and religious leaders. Throughout his sometimes tragic butalways hope-filled life, from shoeshine stand to Department of Labor, Cecil Reed has been a quiet, persistent, realistically-within-the-system fighter for justice. Although he epitomizes the success of his "get along by getting along" philosophy, he still confronts racism daily, still feels "in harm's way", still works for equal rights for all. Every reader will appreciate his honest, energizing, pragmatic chronicle of a life before and after the Civil Rights Act.