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...just that. He opened his dispensary on one of Chang-sha's main streets in November 1906. It was not much of a place to look at-four whitewashed rooms in what had been an old inn. The original staff consisted merely of a gatekeeper, a janitor and the doctor. They hung out a black-and-gold lacquered sign reading Yali I Yuan (Yale Court of Medicine), and patients began to drift in. Yali I Yuan was the first Yale-in-China medical unit, forerunner of Hsiang Ya ("Hsiang" for Hunan, "Ya" for Yale) Hospital and Medical School...
Stertz had partitioned off with sleazy grey curtains. The tentlike affair had no win dow, no closet and no furniture but a cot, a straight chair and a rickety table. It cost $6 a week. Betty shared a dirty bathroom with the janitor and six other girls...
...grey curtains could not be pulled together; anyone passing could peer through. Betty's bed linen was changed every five weeks - on request. The janitor slept on a mattress, 25 feet away, and had a habit of washing rugs in the bathtub...
Money gushed from unexpected springs. The bantam valley town of Jessup (pop. 6,000) sent the janitor of its four-room schoolhouse into Scranton with $19,000 dug out of attic trunks and sugar bowls. A team of 50 determined housewives left their breakfast dishes in the sink, stuck their feet in front doors until they had raised $300,000. Local 18 of the United Auto Workers (C.I.O.), mostly unemployed, sold $87,000 worth of bonds...
Thirty hungry fight managers (including ex-featherweight, lightweight, welterweight champion Henry Armstrong) have been twisting Foxworth's arm to get him to sign up. But Sailor Bob, who earns a piddling $30 a week as a janitor in an East St. Louis nightclub, wasn't buying any just yet. He intends to go back to studying physical education at the University of Wisconsin, put more weight on his rawboned frame, and turn pro when he is good & ready. Says Foxworth, who never seems to be in much of a hurry: "My family matures rather late in life...