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Martin Graebner was a 41st Division chaplain in New Guinea and the Philippines. Now he is a University of Chicago graduate student (philosophy), living in a tiny prefabricated shack with his wife and baby. The Graebners have seen only one movie in the last six months. By skimping in this and a dozen other ways, solemn, 31-year-old Martin Graebner manages to scrape through on $140 a month. The G.I. Bill of Rights allows him $90. He makes up the difference by acting as campus Lutheran chaplain...
...ignorance, he cannot see the need for scientific methods of agriculture, and continues to use cow dung for fuel instead of fertilizer. In his poverty he cannot afford to spend time in learning, nor rupees in buying anything to aid his production. He is born in a small bamboo shack, and after about thirty hungry years (if he is fortunate) he will die there...
...clay country around Marietta, Ga. an old story was retold. An ancient and destitute woman had scrabbled for years in one of the town's back streets. One day she took sick and a squad of church ladies moved in, tidied her shack, bathed her, dressed her in clean clothes and tucked her into a clean bed. When they called next day, they found the old woman and her bed back in the familiar rags. "I just wasn't comfortable," she explained. "I'll have to git used to them clean clothes gradual...
...unpainted clapboard shack in Tokyo's gutted east end, a middle-aged Japanese laborer sat on the floor with his family and, in tune with his three-tube radio, hummed the Atami Blues...
...mountaineer mining missions, and he has moved into Morgantown with two ordained assistants and a third on the way. Both owners and miners are so appreciative of Smith's work that they have asked the Presbyterian Board of National Missions to open nine more centers like the Shack...