Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper and packaging industry, which had been booming along, showed the toll of lessened demand. Both sales and earnings drops were reported by St. Regis Paper Co. and Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp.; profits were also down for Crown Zellerbach Corp. (66? a share v. 1956's 86?), Scott Paper Co. (66? v. 72?) and Allied Paper Corp. (90? v. $2.30). High costs of labor and materials hurt Crane Co., Borg-Warner Corp., Carborundum Co., and Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp...
...motto: "Man that is born of woman, and enlisteth in Jackson's army, is of few days and short rations." Yet with the instinctive knowledge that distinguishes the martinet from the great captain, his ragged "foot cavalry" so revered Jackson that, whenever a burst of cheering swept the camp, men would say: "It's Jackson or a rabbit...
...GAME AND THE GROUND, by PeterVansittart (87pp.; Abelard-Schuman; $3), deals with the war wreckage that can never wholly be cleared away -the human ruins. Among such victims of war, children, with their mixture of helplessness and guiltlessness, are the most poignant. Around a camp of brutalized children and their would-be healers in a thinly disguised German locale, British Author Peter Vansittart has fashioned a melancholy novel that is sometimes static but frequently moving. Two brothers, Eric and the nameless first-person narrator of the story, have turned their war-ravaged country estate, Kasalten, into a rehabilitation center...
...takes a special kind of courage on the part of the impromptu social workers who man the camp to win either the confidence or the compliance of these child gangsters. Threatened with a knifing by a Wolf, good, kindly Eric holds out both hands and is viciously slashed, after which the boy throws the knife at Eric's feet and collapses wailing to the ground. What enables the staff to go on is the knowledge that the children have been more sinned against than sinning. There is the little boy who has never been heard to utter a word...
...well-heeled showfolk collecting Social Security old-age benefits (some others: Francis X. Bushman, Marjorie Rambeau, James Gleason). Whenever Millionaire Cantor and wife Ida get their monthly $161.70 (for any month in which Eddie earns less than $80), they will forward it to a New York boys' camp where Cantor gamboled 53 summers...