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...four children into a one-room filling station without heat or plumbing. In Yonkers, N.Y., Frank K. Richardson, Purple Heart veteran, and his wife and child were evicted from their three-room flat, had to separate and live with friends. In Los Angeles, an ex-marine pitched a pup tent in Pershing Square...
Harvard's veteran adviser, George Bender, is investigating the matter, but as yet no solution has been found. "The only encouraging fact in the whole problem is that no one has had to set up a tent in the Yard yet," commented Bender, after taking a quick glance out of the window, to make sure...
Under the Flagpole. On one of the islands, in front of the long, white Colonial clubhouse, the picnicking and politicking began at once. On the greensward facing a shallow bay was a long tent-at one end a beer and bourbon bar, at the other end a food bar (crabmeat, ham, potato salad and a barrel of oysters). Harry Truman, glass in hand, sat under a flagpole and chatted, called out many a first name...
Between such ventures Wild Bill sandwiched jaunts abroad. As an observer in Ethiopia he had a tent next door to Marshal Badoglio's. In Spain he watched the Axis rehearse its new techniques...
...Foolish Man!" The Committee of the All-India National Congress, which speaks for most of India, was meeting at the foot of Bombay's Malabar Hill. Hundreds of workers had toiled day & night for a fortnight to erect a pandal (tent) big enough to seat the 300 delegates and 25,000 visitors. Gandhi was absent with a high fever, but his deputy, Jawaharlal Nehru, was conspicuously present. Embittered Moslem League supporters signalized Nehru's arrival by waving black flags, which Congress supporters promptly tore to tatters...