Oilman Bill Simon and his wife Ophelia were delighted. Like a few other families in Gushing, Okla. (pop. 8,000), they had paid the passage of a D.P. couple, and taken them into their home to work. The Simons' couple, Jackin and Prowska Saij, worked hard as gardener & cook, and they never had to be told a second time how to use the automatic household gadgets. They knew only a few words of English, but the Simons had given the couple a radio to help them learn the language.
Polish-born, handsome Jackin Saij had grown up in the southern...
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