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Buried on an inside page, the Chicago Daily News three months ago ran a short, shocking story. "Rats chewed to death a nine-months-old girl," said the 90-word item, "as she lay in her crib in her West Side home [last night]." Few readers felt the impact of the story more than the News's Managing Editor Everett Norlander. Months before, he had planned a series on Chicago's 23 square miles of crawling, crumbling slums, abandoned the idea because he thought it was too big a job. "But I couldn't get that rat...
...many as 1,000 people are crowded into buildings intended for 200. One landlord's monthly income from an apartment, which he had split up into living quarters for three families, had quintupled since 1942. On file with the city housing commission were 10,000 complaints about rats, bugs and other unhealthy conditions which "the city is doing nothing about"; 57 rat-bite cases were treated in the last six months alone. In rare cases where landlords were haled into court, three out of five got off free, at worst paid an average fine...
...them (see cuts): a powerful warning in 1935 of the Nazis' designs on Europe ("This Is the House That Diplomacy Built"); a spoof of the British in 1936 over rumors about the romance between King Edward VIII and Wally Simpson. Some of his most popular cartoons are about "Rat Alley," where local crooks and dishonest politicians roam. Once a judge sentenced him to jail when Fitz blasted him in a Rat Alley cartoon. The Missouri supreme court threw out the case...
...department's laboratories now line the basement of Memorial Hall, where experiments to see just how neurotic a rat or a pigeon can get, take up most of the students' time. The laboratories and their facilities are open to all concentrators in the department, and most start experimenting with their own animals in their junior year...
...self-imposed isolation, the rector's convictions grew into eccentricities. The rectory grounds became a small wilderness, the rectory itself rundown and rat-ridden. The rector refused to see anyone without four days notice-in writing. His only steady contact with the parish was Burt Mefton, a handyman who brought him his groceries. The rector lived on oatmeal, apples and bread. He sent his tea and candy rations to needy parishioners...