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Light of the World} featured a stumbling, skid-row drunk transformed by an angel into a white-robed candidate for the heavenly host. During the fourth ( Christ Died for Every Nation}, the choir marched in waving American flags, sang God Bless America, later broke into a jazzy hymn called V is for Victory while they waved flags of all nations...
...take place Mondays through Fridays at 6:25 p.m. on Mr. Fixit, a local show telecast by Station WCAU-TV. Sometimes blond, crew-cut Earl Selby, 37, uses his five minutes to point up some civic horror, as when he appeared unshaven and in tattered clothes to talk about Skid Row and what it costs the city-$650,000 in relief and a high incidence of tuberculosis. Another time, discussing trees, he wore a lumberjack's hat and carried an ax. More often, he simply helps people get what they want. Some of Selby's fixes...
...delegates agreed by ratifying a charter with a 15-member board of trustees. He also noted a switch in emphasis: now that its fame is widespread, A.A. gets more and more alcoholics (about half its new members) who have not yet sunk out of social respectability into Skid Row obscurity, who have had little or no experience with delirium, hospitals and jails. In consequence, A.A. is approaching closer to preventive medicine. Such cases make up one of the most encouraging sections of the new edition of Alcoholics Anonymous. A prime example...
Born in New York of Alsatian parents, Hoffer lost his sight in a childhood tumble, and though he regained his vision eight years later, he never finished grade school. At 18 he lit out for California and landed on Los Angeles' skid row. "It was then," he says, "that I first began to live." He rode the rails up and down the state, picking oranges, swinging sledges in railroad section gangs, lumberjacking. prospecting. On a gold-digging trip to the Sierras he took along a copy of Montaigne's essays. "We were snowed in and I read...
...days on the equivalent of $10 a week. Said he: "There is nothing that I want to do, and nothing particularly that I am glad to have done." He added bitterly: "Man is not an animal in which intelligence can take much pride." A year later, flying into a skid on his motorcycle, he dashed his brains out against a tree...