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...idiot boy Bub Quigley frightens and revolts Amy with his drooling and twig-chewing. In a sudden funk over the death of a cow, Amy herself races crazily through the bush one night and has a miscarriage...
...three, Conrad Fischer lost a close three-set match to Pierce Gardner, but Harris, at four, downed the Lord Jeffs' Bub Dillon, 6-3, 9-7. Maynard Canfield, hitting a twisting serve and volleying sharply, swept past Roger Williams at five, dropping only six games. In the final singles match, Dan Mayers easily best Cogan...
...around for a way out of their troubles, RKO's owners were canvassing the field in search of someone willing to take the company off their hands. They got some encouragement. Matthew Fox, who made a fortune in movies before he got into such varied fields as toys (Bub-O-Loon) and international trade (TIME, July 19, 1948), was trying to make a deal. At week's end, Atlas Corp.'s President Floyd Odium, who sold RKO to Howard Hughes in the first place, also got into the act. He said he was looking into...
...draftees, not because it needed them, but because so many tough young men volunteered that the other services felt cheated. The Marine Corps fixed it so that draftees could specify their choice of service; a sergeant could still snarl at a boot: "Nobody asked you to join this outfit, bub." Now the Marines had to go begging. The Marines would presumably still have the right to wash out anyone who couldn't stomach the rugged training. But the sad fact these days, said one Marine major, is that there are just "not enough glory hunters" any more...
...Tradition" dies not necessarily imply the colorful fluttering of Tree Day or the hub-bub of hooprolling, but a certain pattern of conformity that the Wellesley girl, in spite of her acclamation of freedom, slips into until the habit becomes a part of the responsibility...