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...fare is good, sometimes it is gagging; but good or bad, it is never just ration spinach and to hell with it. Due to these luncheon tests and the field trials a number of changes in Ration K have been made since it was first stowed in a knapsack late last year. Recent innovations: cheese for meat in the supper package, fruit bars for a touch of tartness, the cigarets as "morale builder-uppers." Most vexing current problem : finding a thirst-quencher satisfactory under all conditions...
Artist Leigh learned his nature firsthand, trekking up & down the Western deserts with his paints and brushes in his knapsack. In 1926 he went with the American Museum of Natural History's late ace taxidermist Carl Ethan Akeley on an expedition into East Africa to paint museum backdrops. Today, hale and high (6 ft. 2 in.) at 74, he lives comfortably in a trophy-laden Manhattan studio, helps his wife, Ethel Traphagen, collect costumes for the Traphagen School of Fashion, which she owns...
Dusty and tousled in grimy white ducks and sweater, with a knapsack at his shoulder and an umbrella in his hand, wanderlusty Pianist-Composer Percy Grainger trudged into the Cheyenne, Wyo., depot, was hailed by cops, who wanted to know his name. One officer heard it. grunted: "And I'm William Tell," marched him into the station. There Vagabond Grainger produced his proof, departed unperturbed for a concert engagement at Greeley, Colo...
...platform of the railroad station of Lublin, in German Poland, teemed. On it stood a forlorn, broken spirited crowd who moved only when shoved. The people were utterly destitute. All they had for baggage was here a knapsack, there a handbag, sometimes just a cloth bundle. A few carried scraps of food for which they had no stomach. The most any had in cash was 300 marks ($120). Train after train pulled in, and passengers poured out like ashes from dump-trucks. The heavy crowd became unmanageable. Finally the stationmaster blustered out, ordered that not one more passenger should alight...
National service of this sort was indeed already being rendered by talents so widely diverse as Mystery Writer Dorothy Sayers, who wrote cheerio editorials for the newspapers, and Herbert Read, art critic and scholar, who prepared an anthology of prose and verse to be called (for its destination) The Knapsack-"just the sort of thing I wanted myself in the last...