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...another isolated shack, where he was exposed to an Aedes aegypti mosquito, which bit him on the knuckles of his right hand, was near death as he fought a 105° fever and lost 40 lbs., but finally survived to collect a $300 bonus, a $200-a-month lifetime pension and a special congressional medal. When asked why he volunteered, South Carolinian Hanberry replied: "It was the thing to do." After his Cuban ordeal, Hanberry never again entered a hospital until last December...
...thefts. After re tiring, he returned to the Dodgers as man ager in 1932 and 1933, was, until his re lease three weeks ago, racing judge at the Miami Beach Kennel Club. But like many another survivor of the day when the ball was dead and the Players' Pension Fund unborn, Max Carey, now approaching 71, last week listed his total assets as "social security and a house with a big mortgage...
...Three Cities' Chambers of Commerce formed a committee to obtain pledges from local residents to buy $5,000,000 worth of shares, pushed the stock to $34. Some Endicott-Johnson employees circulated a petition requesting that $10 million of their pension fund be invested in E-J stock if necessary to block Glen Alden's bid, got 65% of the workers to sign. One reason: many E-J workers migrated from nearby coal fields where Glen Alden mining operations declined in recent years, caused layoffs...
...undergraduates who resent being taunted for having money, especially when they don't have it. One Yank at Oxford suffers one gibe too many at American opulence, McCarthyism, U.S. football and so on, and retorts with tart justice: "At least we don't sit around talking about pension plans before we've even graduated...
...shoes Charlie Chaplin used to wear." "A Beheaded Mule." Guignard owes his life-and much of his present success -to a dedicated physician named Santiago Americano Freire, who nursed him back to health from a nearly fatal case of the DTs. Dr. Americano got his patient a state pension of $100 a month, arranged most of his exhibitions, which in one year alone sold more than 100 paintings...