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...modern Horatio Alger is a penniless Negro who rises from the rags of a segregated Southern high school to the riches of Harvard. As in the classic story, he has a patron. It is the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, a counseling agency that finds poor Negroes with rich minds and then finds colleges and scholarships for them. In 15 years of scouring South and North, NSSFNS (which is commonly reduced to "Ness-feness" in speech) has successfully planted 9,000 Negroes in 350 mostly-white colleges, and last week it revealed its chief asset: the Negroes...
Fortunately, Pitts is an expert on bootstrap operations. His penniless father, a Georgia tenant farmer, raised eight children on peas and corn bread and dreamed of educating all of them. Pitts arrived at Negro Paine College in 1934 with $13 in his pocket, worked his way washing dishes. After two years he went blind. At length he recovered sight in one eye and quit college to "keep school" in Milan, Ga., for $47.50 a month. He saved money, but his father borrowed it-$50 here, $100 there. One day, urging him to finish college, his father produced all the "borrowed...
...cotton and medication for fire victims. Top U.S. fire-control experts flew in immediately, including Merle Lowden, chief of the fire-control division of the U.S. Forest Service. Peace Corps doctors and nurses opened a 100-bed hospital in Tibagi, where U.S. officials began doling out supplies. Homeless and penniless the refugees may be, says a Brazilian in Tibagi, "but most of them are wearing new clothes for the first time in their lives, and they're overfed...
...Nhus were married, the Indo-China war broke out. All the Ngo Dinh brothers were militantly anti-Communist and anticolonialist. Their father, Ngo Dinh Kha, had been an officer in the old imperial court but quit in a dispute with Viet Nam's French overlords, despite being virtually penniless, and went out and farmed his rented rice fields side by side with his peasant neighbors. Diem himself left politics before World War II rather than work with the French. In that tradition, Nhu, his wife and family were opposed both to the Red Viet Minh "army of liberation...
White Chief. In 1946, when he was 26, Polish-born Rachman had arrived in Britain virtually penniless and possessing a stateless person's passport. At first, he found postwar Britain a bleak place. His English was poor, and he labored as kitchen helper, insurance agent and black marketeer. He made his bid for fortune in the early 1950s by borrowing $2,500 to buy a lodging house near London's Harrow Road. The house cost so little because seven of its eight rooms were occupied by tenants protected by rent control and immune from eviction. Rachman rented...