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...posed with the collection for the benefit of news photographers. In Chicago's Morgan Park neighborhood, 17 of her club women gathered for a similar rite around $1,265 worth of furniture. The pushcarts full of food were symbolic of hidden and direct taxes extracted from an average paycheck each year-enough to buy groceries for a family of four for ten months; the pile of tables and chairs represented the tax drain on an average Morgan Park family...
...with fishtail Cadillacs and matched sets of Spaulding golf clubs. But the average industrial wages are low in Japan ($42 a month), and workers have almost no savings at all. The Korean war boom is spent, though prices are up 59% since 1950. For many urban families, the next paycheck is the only shield against disaster...
Next day, without waiting for his $57,492 paycheck, Middleweight Olson, who complained all through training that he was homesick, flew off to his wife and four children in San Francisco. Before Bobo left, Turpin put the new champion (and indirectly himself) in proper boxing perspective: "This lad isn't in the same class with Robinson...
...manager of the Perry Point, Md. Veterans Administration Hospital, told about a new "rehabilitation incentive" for mental patients: money. Peffer has carefully transferred partially cured psychiatric patients at his hospital to the status of "member employees.'' (Sample jobs: landscape worker, painter, janitor.) He found that a monthly paycheck for many patients is a valuable bridge between life in an institution and life in society outside, restores their self-esteem and greatly accelerates recovery...
...both in that, though normally erect in stance, he is happy to drop on all fours and thunder off at a gallop. Australian wool interests hope that the "tropis" will prove to be a dream-come-true-workers who can be trained to operate a loom without benefit of paycheck...