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Because of a brain injury at birth, an eight-year-old boy had never been able to sit or stand. Three months ago he entered Dr. Herman Rabat's grey clapboard house in Washington-for treatments combining physical therapy with a drug called pro-stigmine. Last week the boy walked...
...unpainted clapboard shack in Tokyo's gutted east end, a middle-aged Japanese laborer sat on the floor with his family and, in tune with his three-tube radio, hummed the Atami Blues...
First to go on the block will be the 300-unit clapboard project at Wichita, Kans.. As fast as other units become surplus, they too will be put up for sale, along with 35,000 trailers. When these units were built, Congress provided that they be torn down within two years after the war emergency was over, lest they become slums...
Many an American thinks of a church as a plain, white clapboard rectangle with a steeple and stained-glass windows. He might have difficulty recognizing some of the 3,616 churches now on postwar planning boards. Among the more outlandish designs, most of them reported in this month's Architectural Record: ¶A community church in Carmichael, Calif., which will include a badminton court, tennis court and swimming pool, for the strengthening and immersing of the congregation...
...Jeffers was a product of this brawling frontier. His father, William, came over from Ireland's County Mayo in 1868 and, after laying his share of track, settled down to work as laborer for the U.P. in North Platte, Neb. There Bill Jeffers was born, in a tiny clapboard house that was usually crowded with railroad men, always swirled with argument (when all other topics were exhausted, they argued on ways & means of freeing Ireland). It was inevitable that Bill Jeffers should grow up to be 1) belligerent, 2) a railroad...