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...having learned to read a sentence. He got odd jobs as milkman, baker, house painter, hospital orderly. "Sometime I quit, sometimes they sacked me. I just couldn't get interested. I didn't care. An' I was always gettin' into mischief, always fightin' or breakin' windows, an' then boozin' and gettin' into trouble with the police. I was a sort of spiv all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Making Their Ears Twitch | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

...Started Runnin'." "It started breakin' in one place, then another," said leathery, 60-year-old Fisherman John Quails, a flood veteran. "Then I heard a boy hollerin' up the way a piece, and I seen it was all over. We started runnin' and the water was right at our heels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Duck Drownder | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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