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...jealous of her, pays no attention to the fact that her women friends regard her as a bit on the calculating side. She is a farmer's daughter from Smithfield, N.C. (pop. 3,678). When Ava was two, her father lost his farm and became a tenant farmer. Ava loved to run about barefoot, and is still apt to appear at parties carrying her shoes. She climbed trees and smoked cigarettes behind the barn with the boys...
...daylight, Sheriff Babb put through a call to Governor Adlai Stevenson, who called out five companies of National Guardsmen. Most of the day was spent in making preparations for the night. Vans, trucks and private cars shuttled back & forth, trying to save the belongings of tenants. One tenant, a retired Chicago cop, said, as he helped with the moving, "I saw a lot of things as a policeman but never anything like that. These people are savages...
Died. Titus Kammerer, 86, Swiss shoemaker who unwittingly harbored one of history's most famous exiles; after long illness; in Zurich. During the years 1916-17, he rented two rooms to a quiet, stay-at-home tenant who always promptly paid the rent. The tenant: Nikolai Lenin...
...onetime princely state of Hyderabad in Central India has an old custom called yetti. This is a system by which police and revenue officers combine with the deshmukhs (rich landlords) to force tenant farmers to work without wages. No one took much notice of yetti until 1945, when the Communists organized a peasant uprising, murdered several deshmukhs and started to redistribute their lands...
...probably a weather-beaten, 84-year-old fishing shack in Rockport, Mass, known to artists, professional and amateur, as "Motif No. 1." Rockport citizens have long taken jealous pride in preserving its warped red siding and sagging shingles in a state of paintworthy dilapidation. A year ago the tenant, Dana Vibert, lobster dealer, strung overhead wires to the shack to run an electric pump. Horrified art colonists demanded that he take them down; they spoiled the charm. Replied Vibert: "If you don't like the wires, don't paint 'em." Charm or no charm, he intended...