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Died. F. W. Fitch, 81, shampoo millionaire ("Fitch's Dandruff Remover Shampoo," "Fitch's Ideal Hair Tonic"); in Des Moines. Born into a poor Iowa family, he started work at eight as a farmhand, became a barber and concocted a tonic that temporarily removed dandruff. When he found many willing buyers, he stopped barbering, moved his equipment from his house to a plant, started on a business which cleaned up $11 million a year...
...Walter would set out alone on a trip with enough money to get him far away from home, never enough to get him back. When his cash ran out, Walter was forced to learn to live by his industry and wits. He traveled in nine countries, worked as a farmhand, dishwasher, errand...
...Ernie (not even at Whitehall would anyone have thought of calling him Ernest) had once been a drayman's boy himself, and a shop clerk and a pageboy and a tram conductor into the bargain. An orphan at six, he had gone to work at ten as a farmhand for sixpence a week, and promptly struck for higher wages. The strike failed. Ernie was fired. Soon afterward he got another job at a shilling a week, plus a bonus of jam on Sunday for reading to his new boss out of Hansard's parliamentary reports...
Helpless Heroes. Gheorghiu has two heroes, both Rumanians, neither of them guilty of any crime. Johann is a naive young farmhand who is sent to a labor camp by a police official who covets his wife. Traian is a famous novelist and minor diplomat whose first internment comes when the Yugoslavs pick him up as an enemy alien. Once imprisoned, each begins a pointless odyssey of torture and despair that ends with Traian's death in a camp and Johann's enlistment (to escape another round of internments) in the army of "the West" at the start...
...Frankey and his quiet little buddy Corporal Paul Abel were supply noncoms in C Company of the 796th M.P. Battalion. Frankey, 29, came from Brockton, Mass., had been a lifeguard, and had gone to the University of Wisconsin for two years. Abel was 26, from Bolivar, Mo. A onetime farmhand, he had only been through grammar school, but he knew how to do things in the city: he had once helped Frankey steal a $1,300 radio transmitter from an M-8 U.S. armored car. When they first tried to sell their loot, black-marketeers started them on an easier...