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When the Broyles oath law was passed in Illinois in 1955, we predicted that it would "catch" no subversives and serve only to harass people of conscience. The plight of ex-janitor Hjalmar Andersson is only one evidence of this. We look to the day when the legislature will undo its 1955 handiwork...
...teacher or parent in the city of Evanston. Ill. (pop. 75,300) cared more deeply about the Orrington elementary school than Swedish-born Hjalmar Andersson. For 23 years as janitor, he kept the building clean and in good repair: no matter how much there was to do, he always had time to joke or chat with the pupils and listen to their troubles. But for all his good humor, Janitor Andersson is a stubborn man. Last week he was barred from the school he loves because of a rather odd and lonely crusade...
...Though he wrote the service that his salary had been stopped, the revenuers were back again the next year with an additional demand for $69. Meanwhile, the school board began to get a bit embarrassed about having an unpaid crusader around. Last month, at the board's request, Janitor Andersson finally quit...
...hipped nude, Harlem street scenes, an oil portrait that markedly resembled Khrushchev-stocked up on mystery novels and books on Degas and Van Gogh, sipped his brandy neat at the nearby Music Box bar. He read the local papers and, occasionally, The New Yorker. Sometimes he helped the building janitor make wiring repairs. Said one bemused neighbor later: "He didn't look as if he had a nickel. You'd never take...
...rural Arkansas school, did farm chores, picking apples and digging sweet potatoes, soon won a county competition with his first watercolors and oils. At 18 he went to the Dallas Art Institute on a scholarship. There he studied life drawing and painting, made ends meet by doubling as school janitor and fabricator of canvases and panels that the school sold to its students. Eventually he became assistant director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, now teaches at the University of Texas in Austin. At any time he is apt to load his family into a battered station wagon with...