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...Bessie Braddock is a character in Liverpool-as salty as its docks, as fierce as its wind, as biting as its rain. Bessie was born 55 years ago in its working-class district, where one cold-water tap in the courtyard often served a whole block of houses. Her mother was a Labor Party worker and a social worker, ladling out soup from "St. George's Plateau (atop the steps of a Liverpool concert hall), and one of Bessie's earliest memories is the look on hungry faces when the soup ran out. When she went...
Between percussioned boredom in the suburbs and rural depravity in the South, All in One offers Paul Draper's clean and stylish tap dancing. Draper seems to have grown more versatile, particularly on the satiric side; but what remains uniquely his is the tapping to classical themes, the suggestion of ballet grace...
...Vocational Rehabilitation is doling out $30 million in Government aid to state agencies to help put the handicapped in jobs. Overall, some 60,000 disabled workers found jobs in industry in 1954, and the U.S. Government estimates that the number will jump 200% by 1959. But this will tap only a fraction of the potential manpower. Many businessmen are frankly reluctant to hire the handicapped because they fear that such workers are prone to injury, will hurt themselves on the job and thus boost insurance compensation rates. The fears are largely groundless. Some state compensation laws make a company responsible...
...Harlem-born Sammy was smitten with show business about as soon as he could take a few dance steps. At three, Sammy hit the Orpheum Circuit in a flashy family act, has stuck with his father and uncle ever since-they still open his act with some nostalgic tap routines. During a burlesque stint, when he should have been in school, Sammy was pinched in an A.S.P.C.C. raid. Then came the skinny years of the Depression, a wartime stint in Special Services, the postwar years when the act kept getting stranded between guest engagements. Today, signed up to star...
Increases of 1000 times the normal amount of radioactivity in Cambridge's tap water have been recorded by the Sanitary Engineering Department since the beginning of experimental nuclear detonations, Harold A. Thomas, associate professor of Sanitary Engineering, said recently. However, this amount would have to be multiplied 30,000 times before it would become medically important, he added...