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Britain's hobos were haunted this week by the specter of Government planning. A fortnight ago the Berks, Bucks and Oxford Vagrancy Committee was much impressed by a miniature Beveridge Plan for tramps titled: The Rehabilitation of Britain's Hobo Population. Chief points: 1) compulsory medical examination of tramps by qualified specialists, with diplomas in psychological medicine; 2) new hobo training homes and hostels...
Efforts to locate Fred Husband, the author of the hobo plan, were at first unsuccessful due to the fact that Planner Husband is himself a tramp. The Vagrancy Committee tried to trace him with the help of the newspapers. Last week he was discovered in a fish & chips shop...
...pleasing are the splendid sets designed by Oliver Smith, the handsome interior of Miss Jenny's and the gaily colorful hobo-jungle especially adding to the beauty of the performance. The Duke Ellington music (book and lyrics are by John Latouche) is almost as rewarding with a score of pleasing melodies. Among the better tunes are "Take Love Easy," "When I Walk With You," "Tomorrow Mountain," "Tooth and Claw," and "Girls Want A Hero." Latouche's lyrics are particularly amusing in "Ore From A gold Mine" and "I Want To Be Bad." The east gives a performance of mixed quality...
During the recent campaign, a candidate for high public office swarmed into our Los Angeles bureau with his retinue of public relations advisers, delivered his favorite platform oration to the TIME staff, swarmed out again. He was defeated at the polls. In Denver, an old man from " hobo row" brought in a faded, crumpled news paper cut of his boy in uniform. He wanted to know if we could run the photograph and do a story about his son's receiving the bronze star. Our man explained that the photograph defied reproduction. At length, the old man went away...
When the time came to elect a king, the boes looked to their professional ethics. A hobo cannot be a tramp or a bum. He must not beg or steal or ignore soap & water. Now & then he must work a while. His peers elected Bo Sigurd ("Skeets") Simmons, 56, of Detroit, who hitchhiked from New York in seven days, spent $10 for food en route. Ben ("The Coast Kid") Benson, twotime king of the jungles, ran a poor fifth. There were strong hints that Ben was a "greaseball" and never took a bath. Said one hobo: "He's just...