Word: helpers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Royal Bed. The "hospital" was, in fact, the ranch near León where the sick were sent to die and rebellious girls were sent for discipline. "Some died of hunger, some of sickness, and others couldn't take the punishment with the stick," admitted one helper. The sisters' undertaker described how she "sprinkled the bodies with kerosene and set them on fire. Then we would call our gravedigger." A girl told how she was left alone without medical care while giving birth to her child, which then died and was buried in the ranch yard. The most...
...promotions. "We're blessed by our poverty," says Goldberg. "We can't spread ourselves into areas we can't do well in. What we can do is a very thorough job in direct mail and in canvassing door to door." Goldberg and Volunteer Helper Sally Saltonstall (niece of Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall), have divided the state into small sectors of every county in which six-man teams will soon barnstorm on an enlistment campaign. Goldberg figures that each team should be able to reach between 400 and 500 people a day, at the rate of ten people...
...logical mind," said Thomas Hart Benton, who was Pollock's teacher at Manhattan's Art Students League from 1929 to 1931, "but he was a very fine colorist." Perhaps he learned his color and texture from the land, when, he worked as a surveyor's helper; in any case, he learned drawing from anatomy up. He borrowed Benton's feel for the swirly sensuousness of oils, turned to the writhing images of the Mexican artist José Clemente Orozco, loved the sinuous drapery of baroque art. But his greatest influence came from childhood days...
...West Virginia Wesleyan ('58) on a family income of $1,090. She majored in library science, got a B average, earned a master's at Western Reserve, and is the science librarian of Oberlin College. Ragan A. Henry, 29, son of a Kentucky carpenter's helper, came from a family with an income of $3,000. He won $4,600 in scholarships at Harvard, graduated magna cum laude ('56), went on to Harvard Law ('61), is a Philadelphia lawyer...
...INCREDIBLE JOURNEY. To brighten the season, Santa's Helper Walt Disney presents Tao the cat, Bodger the bull terrier and Luath the Labrador retriever making their way home across 250 miles of rough Canadian terrain, and straight into the affections of the young-at-heart...