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...believed in thrift, personal integrity, personal independence and the necessity of toil; he abhorred with equal fervor, tobacco, alcohol and ostentation. His favorite dishes were tripe and pig's feet. Although he was an officer of 43 companies and corporations, he shared a small, low-ceilinged office in Boston's museum-like State Street Trust Co. with his secretary (who comes from Illinois). He contemplated buying a new hat as reluctantly as he would have considered selling the house he had built in Concord...
...Fruit of Toil. In Emporia, Kans., a city official got an emergency garbage collection call, dispatched three men in a one and a half ton truck, wound up with an apple core...
Kravchenko indicated "understanding and approval." Some days later he was on his way to the U.S. Some months later he repacked his bags, stole out of his Washington boardinghouse. Now he all but calls for a world crusade against "the political regime into which I poured a lifetime of toil and faith." He lives secretly, ducks photographers. Intense, pale-faced, he nervously fiddles with his neat black tie, dismisses unfavorable reviews of his book as the work of charlatans or Communist henchmen...
...what can I do? Is it enough to give to famine relief and support the U.N. and hope for a better world? I don't think it is. Ceaseless toil for the rest of our lives would not erase that guilt. . . . Our ideals must become deeds. We must have action...
Students at the Russian-controlled University of Berlin last week were learning one of Communism's chief tenets: "the annihilation of the difference between physical and intellectual toil." Because the university was 80% destroyed by bombs, the Russians have decreed that all healthy German students-including coeds-must spend 200 hours a year picking up rubble. Unhealthy students may make up for it by "increased political activity...