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...though he was ugly with the vilest ugliness of man, ghastly sexual ugliness: anger, amazement, and the desire to kill or rape, in his eyes." The Author. William Saroyan's father was a professor in his native Armenia; as an immigrant in Manhattan, he rose to be a janitor. Author Saroyan was born in the Fresno vineyard district of California, whither his father had gone to try his luck farming. Educated at public schools and libraries, by odd jobs and semi-starvation, William Saroyan began to write in his teens. But, says he, "I am not a writer...
...Townsend opened the Plan's first office last November in the rear of a Long Beach real estate salesroom, with a one-legged man as assistant, a Salvation Army protege as janitor. Success was quick. California's myriad oldsters came in masses to his meetings. By thousands they bought his 25¢ pamphlet. They sent the word back East to the old home-folks...
...good times. She bobbed her hair and said a kidnapper did it. Soon after, she caused her parents more anguish by dyeing her hair a flaming red and taking to bright-colored berets, tawdry dresses and high heels. When they found her bedding in a cellar with an Italian janitor's son, they had her arrested for being a "stubborn child...
...ticket on the winning horse got only $82.000. A 7-year-old Manhattan schoolboy won $75,000 with a ticket on Easton. A Long Island City mailcarrier sold his ticket on Colombo for $51,-ooo, the amount he would have won had he held it. A Manhattan janitor supplied variations in the usual lottery story by discovering, after his name had been given to the Press as winner of $75,000 with a ticket on Easton, that the ticket was not really his but another one taken out in his name "for luck" by his nephew...
...capacity of its heary predecessor, the new switch board connects with some 66 different rooms throughout the confines of the older buildings of the domains of the Gold Coasters, in addition to which there are also two other phones for the janitor and the like. Unfortunately, however, only six of the trunk lines can be connected up at one time; and although the operator late last night refused to commit himself, we'll bet he has a hard time listening in on all of them at the same time...