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Sickened by all this, Mahoney desperately reaches out to a new life. He studies till his eyeballs boil and wins a scholarship to the university in Galway. But the struggle to escape exhausts his will to live. Fearing achievement more than failure, he subsides again into despair, quits college and sinks into the working masses, possibly forever...
Terrible Twins. One day Waldo dies "of spite like a boil burst at last with pus." Arthur flees the house, returns after three days, and is mercifully committed to the local asylum. It remains for the twins' twin dogs to prove that Waldo, if slightly incredible, is edible. Hungry dogs will swallow anything...
...declares himself sole possessor of his prize. Though their tepid passion would scarcely justify a stern frown, it somehow brings on rebellion, invasion, indeed an all-hands orgy of picturesque violence. Enemy hordes besiege the tower, piling up in the moat while oil and dissension boil within. "Is this what we get for loving?" asks the fair captive...
...York he roomed (and went brawling) with John Barrymore, table-hopped at all the best restaurants. What reporting he did was stunningly successful-"Where there's life," somebody noted, "there's Swope." His eye was sharp, and his sense of moral outrage came easily to the boil. He was soon tapped by Joseph Pulitzer's crusading, spirited World. Fascinated by crime, he helped investigate and solve the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthai; even more fascinated by politics, he sailed for Europe in 1916 to cover Germany's side of the war, won the first Pulitzer Prize...
...today in New Harven, the Yardling will battle the undefeated Yalies in what promises to be the offensive duel of the year. Actually, it could boil down to a battle of stars; Crimson scatback and captain Vic Gatto against Bullpup passing wonder Brian Dowling, the finest freshman quarterback at Yale since Tom Singleton...