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When Tennis Star Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly, 18, got a heroine's welcome at the San Diego railroad station after winning the U.S. clay courts tennis title in River Forest, Ill., photographers asked her to kiss her 21-year-old seagoing boy friend, Petty Officer Norman Brinker. Little Mo politely refused, gave him a warm hug and a smile instead. But things were different at home. A cameraman followed her out to the stable, snapped her in a reunion with Colonel Merryboy, a seven-year-old roan presented to her last year by admiring citizens of San Diego...
...much . . . Hamlet is very nice too. I am eight and a half. I am reading Robinson Coruso, now, I don't no weather Huckleberry Finn or Robinson Coruso are best, but I'll soon find out. After I finesh Robinson Coruso I am going to read Hans Brinker. It will proply be good...
...addition to these, there are others the center has reservations about. They are marked "not unacceptable, but . . ." Huckleberry Finn is "not unacceptable, but like giving Hamlet to an eighth grader." As for Hans Brinker: or, The Silver Skates, it is "a good story, but should be accompanied by a story of modern Holland to avoid the wooden shoe stereotype...
Haarlem was not drowned. The little boy stayed at the dike all night, too cold even to whistle and attract the attention of passersby, until he was found in the morning and the hole was plugged. Thus, in Hans Brinker or, The Silver Skates (1865), Mary Mapes Dodge told the legend of the sluicer's son who became "The Hero of Haarlem." The practical Dutch pointed out that the story was not true and technically quite implausible. But Americans visiting The Netherlands invariably asked to see the place where the little boy had put his finger in the dike...
...Walls' first crop came in 1936, a year of drought and despair. Iowa was seared by sun and heat. The rivers dried up, the corn wilted, the oats burned into worthlessness. Wall sold the two brood sows for $30 to pay Doc Brinker's bill for delivering Joan, their first baby. Then he went on WPA to earn money for food and interest on the bank loan...