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...Albert Scaturo, 22, of Brooklyn, N. Y., started out to be a teacher, got a Columbia University degree this year. Last week Messrs. Mishanec, Croft, Scaturo and 14 other young men of similar ages, backgrounds, prospective vo cations, acquired the rating and emoluments ($114 per month, with allowances) of second-class seamen, U. S. Navy. They slept in double-decker beds, jammed to gether in the neat, small Naval Air Reserve Station at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Airport. They stepped to the commands of a leathery Marine Corps sergeant. They scrubbed, greased, cranked, shoved, other wise manhandled a yellow...
...Portinari has had hard sledding in the salons of Rio de Janeiro. Second of twelve children in a family of impoverished Italian immigrant coffee workers, he got his first ideas about painting at the age of eleven, when a group of itinerant muralists did a job in the church of the little Sao Paulo town where he was born. They let him help mix their paints, and even paint a star or two himself on the church's ceiling. Four years later with a second-class railroad ticket, three shirts and a pair of pants...
...little town of Lenoir. Ahorse and by shanks' mare, he had traveled all the stormy night from Boone, 25 miles away. He was going to college at Wake Forest, N. C. At Lenoir, young Dougherty cloppered on to a train, the first he ever did see. Finding the second-class car full, he made himself comfortable in first class. When the conductor tried to put him back in second class, the sharp-witted hillbilly pointed to a sign forbidding passengers to change cars while the train was in motion. He rode first-class all the way to Raleigh...
...City. One rail route down to the Gulf at Veracruz skirts the hills around Tlaxcala, 45 miles east of Mexico City. One morning last week more than 1,000 Government employes and their families, off for a collective workers' Christmas holiday, jammed their way into seven obsolete wooden, second-class cars, equipped inside with long, hard, wooden benches. Seven classier steel cars completed the train. Rounding a curve on a downgrade near Tlaxcala, the locomotive broke an axle, jumped the track and spilled all 14 coaches down the slope. Toll: according to press reports, 40 dead, 51 injured; according...
...comment came from Stanford University's Professor-Emeritus William Alpha Cooper, made a first-class German Eagle, or Professor Ralph Haswell Lutz, second-class. Said President Ray Lyman Wilbur: "It looks like an attempt by Hitler to look for friends. I'm glad he didn't spot...