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...Mushrooms. At 44, he makes more than $50,000 a year, but he lives conservatively in a modest house with his wife and four daughters. His father was a lineman for a power company in Waukegan, Ill., and his own education stopped at the high school level. He has never studied physics, chemistry, or any of the other primary disciplines of science fictioneering, but his imagination more than makes up. "Where do you get your ideas?" someone once asked him. Bradbury was eating a mushroom in a restaurant at the time. "Anywhere," was his answer. "There's a story...
...View of the Veins. Pereira decided to strike out on his own in architecture. He stalked new business as he had stalked Margaret. Hearing that a new TB sanatorium was to be built in Waukegan, he spent three months reading books on hospitals, talking to doctors, studying disease rates and nurse-patient ratios. His high-pressure expertise so snowed the selection committee that he won the job over many a more seasoned architect. Entering no fewer than 25 industrial-design competitions at Chicago's 1933 exposition, he won 22. When a Balaban & Katz movie theater offered to spend...
...Jack Benny Program (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). Jack reminisces about his gilded youth in Waukegan. Repeat...
RAYMOND W. TRIMBLE Waukegan...
...handy man with words, Lewis called the 24th Ward "a socio-economic garbage heap." He was fond of pointing out that "there are 75.000 people squeezed into my ward, more than Joliet or Waukegan, and almost as many as Springfield, Ill. We have the highest percentage of high-school dropouts and the highest percentage of people on relief. We have the highest rate of unemployment, the highest rate of juvenile delinquency and a very high rate of apathy and disillusionment." Lewis even moved actively against the miseries of overpopulation. During his last campaign he had his precinct workers distribute "little...