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...Plans. Alami has encountered only a handful of boys who do not fit in. Most thrive on their new life. Last week, with the offer of a $149,000 grant from the Ford Foundation, Alami was bubbling with expansion plans. Among them: bigger & better carpentry and tailoring shops, a flour mill, dairy farm or macaroni factory to sell products to surrounding villages. Says "Uncle" Musa: "I've never had a family. Now I have the most wonderful family a man could ask for." His hope: a Boystown big enough for a family...
...months at the age of nine. Later he taught himself to read and write (and to speak four languages). He developed an eye for a quick profit at an early age, while driving a donkey to market carrying his father's produce. At 16, he started a flour mill. Business flourished until in 1914 Bodo was drafted. Though he got a medical discharge within a month, it was too late to save his mill...
...ghost with such relish that by the time they are through with him, the Father of Physical Culture sounds much more of a human being than he ever did before. Moreover, Bernarr takes on unexpected stature as the modern pioneer of the low-heel shoe, the bed board, enriched flour, sun bathing, brief swimsuits and many of the foods known today to be the richest in vitamins. Macfadden hoped to usher in a second Reformation, but, as he rightly remarked of the leader of the first one: "[Luther] sat around doin' too much thinkin' and takin' cracks...
...Sinclair Weeks, who resigned to become U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Roberts picked F. (for Frank) Peavey Heffelfinger, 55, millionaire Minneapolis grain man. Lean, hardworking Peavey Heffelfinger† is executive vice president of F. H. Peavey & Co., an old (79 years), conservative, family-owned firm which operates elevators, grain trucks, flour and feed mills. As plain as an old shoe in dress, mannerisms, and the way he runs his business, Yale man Heffelfinger has kept largely in the G.O.P. background. But his wife, an early supporter of Harold Stassen, has worked in the G.O.P.'s Minnesota front ranks for more...
...market place with their identification papers. The German soldiers began roughly turning people out of their houses. "Get up to the square," some of them shouted in French. The sick came in their pajamas. Marcelin Thomas, the town baker, appeared, stripped to the waist and still covered with flour, while Curé Jacques Lorich strode along hatless. Mothers came pushing baby carriages. In less than 20 minutes, the populace was assembled, about a third of them children. Only then did the French notice that these were no ordinary Germans...