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England's dole is a medicine for the dis ease of unemployment. Last week Eng land learned that the dole brought its own disease. To many a workman, suddenly jobless, mental deterioration comes swiftly. For a few days he enjoys his leisure. Then comes restlessness. He walks the streets, goes home to pace his floor, bite his nails, throw things at his wife. Gradually this energy wears itself out. He stops shaving, becomes dirty, slovenly, sodden. He looks at the world out of dull, defeated eyes. For this con dition psychologists have a new term : un employment shock...
Marco Vatasso, a young lawyer from Turin, presented his student pass at the Vatican Library last week and waited quietly while a felt-slippered attendant brought him his books. On his way down to the reading room in the Sixtus V wing, he passed a workman and one of the architects engaged in the restoration of the Library arguing excitedly in front of a pillar. Marco Vatasso worked late. It was almost dusk, almost everyone else had left the building, when he looked up to see the Library's whole massive-beamed roof crashing down on his head. The avalanche...
Mural Painter Rivera no longer works for $4 a day, but he holds to most of his old ideas. He believes that there is no such thing as inspiration, that a painter is a workman like any other, that he should work so many hours a day. contract for so many square feet of art a week. Coming to New York last month he explained all this, said that he had no idea what he was going to paint for his exhibition but knew that it would be as fine as anything he had done and added that...
...first time in the history of the Ames Competition between the Law School clubs a case will come up on Workman's Compensation when the Lowell and Chafee clubs compete in the qualifying round for the second-year mens championship in Austin North on December...
...Christopher ("Bat") Battalino: a Chicago fight in which he risked his world's featherweight championship against Earl Mastro; by a decision, after ten rounds. C. Top Flight, dark brown two-year-old filly owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and ridden by Jockey "Sonny" Workman: the Pimlico Futurity, her seventh race this season; raising the total of her cash winnings to $219,000, more than any other mare or any two-year-old has ever won before, more than any other race horse has won this year...