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...losing moment that Evergood recorded as The Pink Dismissal Slip Evergood himself was a part of the famed "219 Strike," in which 219 artists staged an ill-fated demonstration against being swept from the rolls of the WPA. He was clubed into sensibility, spent the night in a cell ankle-deep in filth. On canvas, Evergood's figures were apt to be as chunky as himself, his colors applied in solid intricately designed blocks. But the mood could be as soft as a glow. In Portrait of my Mother, he painted a woman who, doggedly masking her pain, calmly...
Fearful that Banda's release would set off fresh violence in Nyasaland, Governor Sir Robert Armitage organized an elaborately secret "Operation 1066" to spirit Banda from his jail cell in Southern Rhodesia to meet MacLeod in Zomba. After a go-minute session at Government House, Banda emerged jubilant...
From the vantage point of his own cell, Hanners watched teen-age inmates wallowing in idleness, and soon got permission from enlightened Warden Edward O'Hara to start a school. Hanners cajoled books out of the Book-of-the-Month Club, 38 unmatched desks out of local schools. A born teacher, he encouraged his students to discuss everything from Plato to Shakespeare to current events...
Saved from Shock. Steve Allen's hurry began when, at the age of four, he started experimenting with dry cell batteries and electromagnets, both given him by nonscientific parents (his father is a construction executive), who thus hoped to keep him from electrocuting himself in precocious experiments with their house's electric outlets. He assembled a radio before he could read, at seven built a TV set, by 13 was making $1,000 a year from his own TV repair business...
Leader of Three. But an even more impressive assurance of proper voting is something called "cell voting." Rhee's Liberal Party has printed 60 million "training sheets" that are identical with the ballots which will be used this week...