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Others were luckier. In Kansas, Mrs. D. O. Durr peered out of the snow-framed windows of her farmhouse and, like many other farm wives, knew what to expect. Soon refugees started straggling in from nearby highway No. 96-a couple with a three-months-old child, a 90-year-old man, stranded linemen. For two days and nights, Mrs. Durr had 39 guests. As the storm raged on, they feasted on corned beef brisket, little pig sausage, green beans, dozens of eggs and gallons of milk. The women shared the beds; the men slept on the floor. Mrs. Durr...
Such super-isolationism, with hints of the old "yellow peril," is one of the ugliest Implications of Neo-Malthusianism. The world is already overpopulated, the argument goes. Some areas, like the U.S., are luckier than others, but even the U.S. will soon run out of food. Therefore it should not help foreigners. Let them starve now, before they increase their numbers (with our help) and overwhelm...
...city's public-library system was a collection of dark buildings filled with shabby books and headed by inept political appointees. Reform groups demanded that something be done. The first trained librarian they picked died in office after only a few months. The second time they were luckier: they got a bookish, pipe-smoking Tennessean named John Hall Jacobs...
Mustaches & Models. Intellectual women have hair problems too, but of a different sort. At the Dundee convention, said Dr. Armattoe, 58% of the female scientists between 21 and 45 showed "hirsutism in the form of mustaches." Swedish women are luckier than others. Most of them are as bald on their upper lips as the male Swedes are on their pates. But on the whole, Dr. Armattoe concluded sadly, mustaches are an increasing problem to the cultured young women of Europe...
...both bobby-soxers and their mothers. He manages this feat without presenting himself as a big brother, as a cute, asexual nephew, or as a sophisticated porch climber. Men also immediately like him and wish him well; they feel that he is, in fact, an average human being-luckier, better looking and more gifted than they, but essentially one of themselves...