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...vast jungle of tin-roofed hovels known locally as Bidonville (Can Town), an angry mob was forming. There the criers were beaten up before they could deliver their message. Glib agitators harangued little knots of Arabs while others began hiding stones under their burnooses. From shack after shack came the ominous scrape of crude knives being honed...
When the young bush nurse drove her buggy up to a tenant shack on a cattle station in Queensland, Australia, she expected to find teething trouble or an upset stomach. Instead, she found the stockman's 2½-year-old daughter lying crippled on a cot. One knee was drawn up, the foot pointed down and the heel twisted outward. One paralyzed arm lay across her chest. The nursing sister had never seen a case like it, so she drove miles to a telegraph office and wired a doctor for advice. His reply: "Infantile paralysis. No known treatment...
...Springs' children and to a high-school teacher named Elmer Halseth. In 1939, Halseth begged part of a touring exhibit to show to his classes. The youngsters agreed with Halseth that the high school should own one of the paintings. They collected $50 in nickels and dimes for Shack Alley by Chicago's Henrietta Wood...
...Republican, I feel you insult the intelligence of your readers by your laudatory, transparently one-sided, and gossipy story on Senator Nixon [TIME, Aug. 25]. Is not his congressional record a bit more important than the fact that he lived in a shack during law school, and his skill at getting the vote by using nonpolitical issues? What about his record concerning: housing, price control, governmental reorganization, taxation, the steel dispute and tidelands...
Good Luck. The scene is Cuba. The old man, a widower, lives alone in a small shack near the harbor. He makes his living as a fisherman, but for 84 consecutive days he has failed to bring in a single fish. His helper, a young boy named Manolin, who is devoted to him and whom the old man loves, has been forced by his family to leave the unlucky old man and find work on a more successful boat. But the boy still brings him bait and food. Gnarled and bone weary, the old man can only doze and dream...