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...That was a mean job, watching flocks by night. Common sense calls it low-down work and the men who do it are regarded as trash. But. . . an angel came and made them apostles, prophets and children...
...disappeared. Few of the patrons of the Roost now wear "progressive" berets and green-tinted, horn-rimmed glasses. There are only one or two of the tentative little bop beards visible in the Bopera House bleachers, where the most serious followers pay 90? to sit & listen. Whether bop is trash or treasure, it certainly isn't a dud. Last week it was all over Broadway...
...Communist Prague, two trash collectors sat in a cafe on St. Wenceslaus Square and compared the grim past with the glorious present. "The worker's lot has improved enormously, of course," said one. "Just the same, before the revolution they promised us that in the future it would be the masters' turn to sweep the streets and collect the garbage. Now what happens? We are still doing the dirty work." The other took a long draught of his beer. "Ah," he replied at last, "you seem to forget: we are now the masters...
...Temper & Trash. The man who wrote the copy and stirred up the teapot tempest is smart, free-speaking Elliott White Springs, 51, president of South Carolina's Springs Mills (and of seven other textile companies, three banks and a railroad), and an old hand at stirring up excitement...
...Paris, had his ulcered stomach fitted out with an artificial duodenum, started writing. His sardonic War Birds helped start the cycle of wartime aviation books in the late '20s. Springs followed it with nine lesser stories (e.g., Leave Me with a Smile, Who Steals My Pants Steals Trash), which brought a total of $250,000 from such magazines as McClure's, and as bestsellers and scenarios...