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...Scrap Irony, by Felicia Lamport. Humorous verse with an unusual twist: frequently it is funny...
...most profitably to childless tenants, and even for a dingy, three-room basement apartment without private bath or kitchen can usually get far more than a working-class family can afford: up to $20 a week in a country where the average weekly wage is $42. For a London scrap-metal dealer and his pregnant wife, "home" after working hours is a three-ton truck. A common racket for landlords is to charge $200 or $300 key money for "fixtures" that seldom amount to more than a broken-down chair. Worst results of the housing shortage: thousands of split families...
Professors from Columbia University are raising funds to distribute and reprint a letter published earlier this month by 200 Boston area professors urging President Kennedy to scrap plans for fallout shelters...
...SCRAP IRONY (127 pp.)-Felicia Lamporf-Houghton Mifflin...
Calder is perhaps the most at home with jewelry. His strange, twisted wire brooches and earrings are intriguing parallels to his spinning mobiles, and his spiky, formidable necklaces are often wrought from scrap iron. His best work, though, is in hammered silver. American Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz shows a gold-plated necklet cast with an antique turquoise...