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...brew the strong, peat-smoked stuff of Irish patriotism. But most of these stories, dealing with humble Dubliners, plead nothing more special than the heartbreak of man's own making. A clerk breaks a leg running out on the girl he gets into trouble; his father's cast-off shoes hurt a schoolboy's heart much more than his feet; a tottering old watchman asks a Mass for the soul of a soldier he had killed as a youth. Together, such simple and tenderly told stories make a haunting picture of a Dublin not so very different...
...English major can recite the rest of the awful truth: the great Romantic poet was a no-proof lush and a sexsmith who took all womanhood for his forge. For love of him, a titled lady stabbed herself with a pair of scissors, and for hate, a cast-off mistress had him burned in effigy. Even his half-sister succumbed to his wiles...
This week, as Goodwill celebrated its 50th anniversary, it could point to a record matched by no organization in the world In its 101 U.S. plants, it has employed thousands of handicapped workers repairing or renovating cast-off articles for sale by Goodwill. Otherwise the workers would nave had to depend for support on relatives or the community. In so doing, Goodwill has shown private industry that handicapped workers can often do as good, and sometimes better, work than normal workers. Industry has taken the lesson to heart. About 30% of the 17,545 handicapped men & women employed by Goodwill...
Unscientific Method. This is exactly what the late Edgar James Helms had in mind when he founded Goodwill Industries. In 1902 Helms, a young Methodist preacher, sent out an appeal to Bostonians for cast-off clothing to give to the poor in the South End slums. He called his drive an "enterprise of the heart," but he combined the heart with a great deal of energy and common sense. As director of the Unitarian Church's famous multidenominational Henry Morgan Mission, Preacher Helms paid unemployed workers to clean and repair the clothes, then sold them at low prices...
...Using cast-off material with students wives doing the sewing, the men launched their creation last spring. Since last June. Roberts has been handling all the work and will continue although he will be taking a full set of courses...