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...insides with bad hooch and bad food." Joe professes never to be without his "three Hs" - homelessness, hunger, hangovers. On winter nights he sports a layer of newspapers between his shirt and undershirt. He is 5 ft. 4, weighs 95 lb., and trims his cinnamon beard every other Easter. Twenty-six years ago he began a mysterious work- An Oral History of Our Time - a chronicle composed entirely of chance conversations on the Bowery and elsewhere. He has been working-on it ever since. The unfinished manuscript (the fruit of more than 20,000 conversations) contains 9,000,000 words...
Wrote William Butler Yeats of Dublin after the Easter Rising...
...Press-Herald, Evening Express and Sunday Tele gram, Augusta's Kennebec Journal, Waterville's Sentinel, all published by Guy P. Gannett) May Craig keeps Mainers so well posted on national affairs that newsmen nave quipped: "As May goes, so goes Maine." This is somewhat exaggerated. No Down Easter herself (she was born in North Carolina, spent most of her life in Washington), May Craig is likewise no Republican. She describes herself as "about 75% New Dealer." But her Maine readers are fond...
...thousands of fan letters from big and little people. The Charlotte, N.C. Civitan Club sent him a letter of appreciation and a bag of sand, after he had said facetiously in a column from sandy North Africa: "If somebody will just send me a little sackful of sand for Easter, everything will be wonderful." From admirers (members of the Indiana Legislature, the National Press Club in Washington, and just plain people) Pyle has received over $6,000 worth of cigarets for him and distribution among the troops...
First stop was England, where he took part in an open-air service in London's Hyde Park on Easter morning, made the rounds of American camps. Then he hopped across to Northern Ireland for more inspection, afterwards headed for other tours...