RELIEF: No Visible Means

For six months of the year young Ken Keltner, of Milwaukee, Wis., has a good job—playing third base for the Cleveland Indians. This year it paid him about $10,000. The season over, he has no visible means of support. A friend drew this fact to Ken Keltner's attention.

"Are you broke?" said the friend.

"Yeah," said Mr. Keltner, shifting his gum. "I'm broke."

"Why don't you apply for unemployment pay?"

Impressed, Mr. Keltner wrote to the Ohio Unemployment Compensation Commission in Columbus, Ohio, applied for a $15-a-week handout. He was entitled to it, wasn't...

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