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Humanized Mechanization. The only U.S. artist to rival Peale's mastery of still life was an Irishman named William M. Harnett. As sickly as Peale, Harnett was also dirt-poor to start with, took to painting still lifes because he could not afford live models. He made his dead models-rabbits, books, fruit, paper money-so convincing that guards were once posted to protect his canvases from clutching gallerygoers...
...hallmarks of undernourishment were glaringly apparent not only in dirt-poor Italy (whose 1,300 daily caloric intake in March was the lowest on the Continent). In other European countries, where more than 100,000,000 people were hungry, the familiar, sickening signs were cropping up. Health officials announced last week that Germany would be a vast clinical laboratory, providing the greatest opportunity in history to study malnutrition...
Mississippi Mud. Heidelberg, a dirt-poor whistle stop (pop. 615) in the red-clay hills of Jasper County, Mississippi, is the proud site of the largest gusher east of the Mississippi River. With nine derricks sticking up through its cow-dunged streets (one derrick is in the yard of its red-brick schoolhouse), and a tent town of oilmen and their families on its outskirts, Heidelberg is a major oil field-thanks to Gulf Refining's Lewis-Morrison No. 1. Lewis-Morrison produced 2,500 bbl. in a choked-down 24-hr, run last week, and the roughnecks around...
Timeless Treasure. The West finds it difficult to understand how Indians, at a moment when Japan is at their gates, can occupy themselves with opposition to Britain. The West cannot be expected to have a clear mental picture of the dirt-poor, uneducated majority of India's 389,000,000 people. If it did, the West might realize that most of them think they have very little to lose to Japan, and little knowledge of Japan to begin with. To fight, they would need a strong incentive...
With an anecdote Reporter Tomara answered Question No. 2. Proceeding by bus from Ankara to Beirut, she was delayed by a breakdown in the middle of the salt desert of Konya. From the hovels of a dirt-poor Turkish village, the populace swarmed around. Out stepped "an elderly man whose head was wrapped in a dirty rag-possibly a turban, the wearing of which long ago had been banned by the late Kamal Ataturk. The old man, who had been taken prisoner by the Russians in the last war, addressed me in primitive Russian, filling out gaps in his sentence...