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...graphic as the LIFE study of Rio. Ballot's picture of eight Gonzaleses crowded into a single slum-house bedroom had much the same impact as Parks's shot of the Rio favelados crowded into theirs. Fact was that Ballot's most moving picture-Gonzales' frail nine-year-old son Ely-Samuel asleep on a dirty mattress and apparently crawling with cockroaches-was posed. The photographer caught and distributed the roaches for his purpose. Still, the picture was no distortion of fact: in the Gonzaleses one-room apartment Cameraman Ballot found an inexhaustible supply...
...Christmas. Heppenstall's The Greater Infortune concerns a Scot named A. W. Leckie who goes bankrupt, settles in London with his incredibly cheerful wife Alison, and begins to subsist on handouts from a rich homosexual. He goes partying with a congeries of unlovable eccentrics, such as the frail and balding Gabriel Fantl, who was "reputed to have more women by the month than any known man,'' elderly Effie, who had three ghosts (a poltergeist, Thomas De Quincey, and a half-man, half-beast), and Flora Massingham, "as fat and pink as a pig at Christmas," who took...
...Russell obviously hoped to go to jail ("If you condemn us," said he, "you'll be helping our cause"), and Magistrate Bertram Reece obliged. Amid gallery cries of "Fascist!" and "Shame!", he imposed a two-month sentence, later reduced to one week for health reasons. Then the frail old man was whisked un ceremoniously away (unknown hands had written three hasty words in the dust on his Black Maria: "Ban the bomb") to Brixton jail. It was a homecoming: Russell had spent six months of World War I there for his pacifist views...
Denver University's Law College dean was a frail, ailing man. But he was also a perfectionist, and it was with characteristic intensity that William Gordon Johnston, 54, attacked the final 48 hours of his life. He worked a full day at the university, stayed up late polishing a speech he would make the following evening. Next morning. Dean Johnston went by the campus to catch up on his paperwork, drove to Boulder for a Colorado State Bar Association meeting, stayed on for a banquet of Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. He delivered the banquet address, at meal...
...Canadian identity, says Johnson, is not nearly so frail as the nationalists think it is. "If it were true that economic integration leads to a loss of identity, how could one explain the survival of minority and regional groups such as the Scottish and Welsh in England?" Rather than hasten U.S.-Canadian union, argues Johnson, an even closer economic integration of the two countries would only improve Canadian living standards, and thus give Canada the means to follow its own political and social course...