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Good Luck. The scene is Cuba. The old man, a widower, lives alone in a small shack near the harbor. He makes his living as a fisherman, but for 84 consecutive days he has failed to bring in a single fish. His helper, a young boy named Manolin, who is devoted to him and whom the old man loves, has been forced by his family to leave the unlucky old man and find work on a more successful boat. But the boy still brings him bait and food. Gnarled and bone weary, the old man can only doze and dream...
...thighs and legs, which had been most heavily covered, cleared partially. His back was 90% cleared. The boy, now 18 and happier than he had ever expected to be, has learned to hypnotize himself to maintain the improvement. He is working as an electrician's helper...
Camille Bombois had been a wrestler in sideshows. When he quit the muscle business to become a printer's helper, he took up painting as a hobby. Years later his bright, primitive paintings began to attract some mild attention in the Paris art world (TIME, Oct. 27, 1947). Most of his primitive-style pictures were laboriously modeled from photographs. But he peddled enough of them on street corners to give up his printing job and paint fulltime...
...second decathlon day dawned murky and cold, the friendly Finns, concerned with Bob's performance, gave him a helper. A "wonderful little Finnish official," whose name Bob could not pronounce, trailed Mathias with a scoring book, told him "just how well I had to do to break the record." That was all Tulare's No. 1 citizen needed. He won his 110-meter high hurdle heat and the discus throw. Still 99 points behind his record pace, he took third in the pole vault at 13 ft. 1.47 in., his best vault by 0.72 in. Bob was urged...
...Charles W. ("Chuck") Perelle, who made his name & fame as an eradicator of production bugs, has had enough careers to last several men a lifetime. He rose from a painter's helper at Boeing to production boss of its Seattle plant, ran Consolidated Vultee's World War II production and, later, Howard Hughes's aircraft plant, then took on the presidency of Detroit's money-losing Gar Wood Industries, Inc. Three years ago, after Gar Wood was in the black, Perelle took on his toughest challenge. He became president of Philadelphia's money-losing...