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Original Title:	The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
ISBN:	0739416383 (ISBN13: 9780739416389)
Edition Language:	English

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less

Terry Ryan

Paperback | Pages: 496 pages

Rating: 3.92 | 12637 Users | 2051 Reviews

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Evelyn Ryan, wife of an alcoholic husband and mother of ten children, lived in a small town in a time and place when women did not seek jobs outside the home. When finances ran low, feeling desperate, she turned to her parish priest who suggested she "take in laundry." Ryan had to laugh at the advice because she could barely keep up with her own family's washing and ironing. A lesser woman might have succumbed to poverty, but she was determined to keep her family financially afloat and to teach her children that the life of the mind was important. In the early 1950s, Ryan started entering contests, composing her jingles, poems, and essays at the ironing board. She won household appliances, bikes, watches, clocks, and, occasionally, cash. She won a freezer, and several weeks later, she won a supermarket shopping-spree. When the family was faced with eviction, she received a $5000 first place check from the regional Western Auto Store. Ryan's unconventionality and sense of humor triumphed over poverty, and her persistence makes the reader cheer her on.

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Title	:	The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
Author	:	Terry Ryan
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 496 pages
Published	:	(first published April 1st 2001)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Biography Memoir

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What a great story. The book is the true story of a mother of ten who helps support her family by entering contests. Whenever she heard of a company that was holding a contest to come up with a jingle for their product Evelyn would enter it. A lot of the products I haven't heard of, I was born a decade or two after these products were in their heyday. The majority of the contests paid between $1-$25 if they used your slogan. I did the math and a dollar then was equal to seven of today's dollars.

I'm not sure where or why I got this book. It's been lying around for some time, so I thought I'd give it a try. The story is heartbreaking in some ways, inspiring in others, and interesting throughout. It's the story of Evelyn Lenore Lehman Ryan and her family and how she kept them more-or-less solvent through winning product-promotion contests that were common-place during most of her married life. It's a history of a poor family living in small-town America during the middle of the 20th



Mom read a review of this book and one day went to the bookstore with several reviews and told the clerk she wanted all of them. She hadn't read it yet. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and kept quoting it the whole time I was there on vacation. The author was number six of ten children born into an Irish Catholic family. The father drank a large proportion of his already insufficient paycheck. The mother, Evelyn Ryan, entered contests constantly to try to keep the family afloat. She also kept

I feel like my review of this book can best be summed up in 25 words or less:In Honor of Mrs. Evelyn RyanThe rhymes... too many;The laughs... too few.Glad that I read it,but more glad I'm through.

Before reading this, I imagined a lucky woman winning a few contests. I didn't realize that "contesting" was a part of 1950s culture. There were magazines about how to win contests, and groups who got together to help each other. A big part of winning seemed to be knowing which advertising agency would judge; some wanted humor, some wanted earnest product endorsement, some appreciated clever word play. It's a history of this little-known cultural phenomenon. It's also an autobiography--well,

I feel like my review of this book can best be summed up in 25 words or less:In Honor of Mrs. Evelyn RyanThe rhymes... too many;The laughs... too few.Glad that I read it,but more glad I'm through.