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Getting dress material that is sturdy and cheap is the perennial problem of the penniless Haitian peasant women. Traditionally, old flour sacks have filled the need. Now cloth dealers in Port-au-Prince have found a bountiful new supply of material: surplus U.S. 48-and 49-star flags. From shore to shore the island is bright with dresses, shirts and kerchiefs in the stars and stripes; in peasant houses red, white and blue serves for sheets, pillow cases and tablecloths...
...after all his adventures only a friendless, penniless clerk, Frank Harris set out to dazzle London...
Bozzy's law practice prospered. Most of his cases were civil matters, but generosity and a liking for publicity prompted him to defend a succession of penniless thieves and murderers. His most notable case gives the volume a somber ending. With great eloquence, Boswell defends John Reid, who is accused of sheep stealing. The man is condemned to the gallows, apparently more because of poor reputation than any commanding weight of evidence. Boswell fights hard for a commutation but gets only a short stay of execution...
Razor's Edge. By far the best story in the book is George P. Elliott's satire, Among the Dangs. The Bangs are a homicidal South American tribe and the reluctant adventurer conned into going among them is a penniless college student who has taken an anthropology course, and who further qualifies, as he notes, by being "a good mimic, a long-distance runner, and black." His university persuades him to go, and when he returns, crawling with data and skin disease, he is rewarded with a lowly academic post...
Editor George was himself a refugee. He fled Germany in 1933, arrived almost penniless in the U.S. in 1938, got a $15-a-month job editing Aufbau, then a four-page monthly put out by New York's German Jewish Club (now the New World Club, it still owns Aufbau). George turned Aufbau into a weekly, built up circulation by offering its subscribers English lessons, information about naturalization, jobs and housing. Today Aufbau reflects the change in its times: it features first-rate theater and opera reviews, columns on the stock market, chess, stamp collecting and photography. Its famed...