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Between 1935 and 1943, the WPA built or improved enough roads to girdle the globe 24 times, enough bridges to connect New Orleans with Havana, plus 125,110 public buildings, 8,192 parks and 853 airports. The WPA companion agency, the Public Works Administration, gave posterity Hoover Dam, Chicago's sewer system and the aircraft carriers Yorktown and Enterprise. In all, the two agencies disbursed $9.8 billion...
Magdalena Vozaites, 5, is the daughter of a Greek immigrant family living in Daly City, Calif. The victim of a birth defect that prevented her from resisting infection, Maggie has had illness as her constant companion since infancy. During one 18-month period, she was hospitalized nine times with serious infections, including pneumonia. It was questionable whether she would survive childhood...
...pastime has considerable appeal for the young as well. "It's a much better way to observe a girl's physical qualities than in a smoky, dimly lit cafe," said a student at Zurich's Federal Technical University last week, as he gazed fondly at his companion. "I met Susy at a Vita Parcours three months ago, and now we keep fit together...
FATHER JAMES H. Flye taught Agee as a young boy at St. Andrews in Swanee. Tennessee, and later was his traveling companion on a bicycle trip through France and England in the summer of 1925. "An Article of Faith", written by the new eighty-six year-old priest is a friendly, if somewhat vague reminiscence about the clearly unusual boy that Agee must have been. It is written in the same expansive, liturgical style that Agee was himself to adopt. Out of Father Flye's anonymous compassion, one reads the cosmic compassion that marks Agee's earlier prose, moving into...
...full range of his character's emotions and turns of personality without losing sight of the fisherman's basically uncommunicative nature. Milena Dravic portrays the wife as simple and innocent of her husband's lust without allowing her to appear to be simply stupid. Her pleasure in having a companion forms a perfect counterpoint to Yanos turbulent feelings towards the intruding girl...