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...schooling was interrupted after the eighth grade. To help support the family Cas had to go to work. He caddied, sold papers and worked in a pottery and a steel foundry. One year he spent in a Utah CCC camp. Only after three years could Cas start high school...
Though his father objected to his wasting time on football, a game he could not understand, Cas starred for three years at Steubenville High School. Scholarships were waiting for Columbia and Ohio State. But to please his father, who had heard and dreamed about West Point in grammar school in Stawiski, Poland, Cas wrote to Army Coach Earl Blaik about his ambition to go to West Point. He mentioned his football. Army's trainer went out to Steubenville to have a look...
...room in the Fort Steuben Hotel, Cas stripped off his scarred leather jacket and overalls. (He wore no underwear.) The trainer studied his body. The verdict: "A hell of a man with a beautiful pair of legs." Blaik interested Ohio Congressman George H. Bender, who appointed Myslinski to the Academy...
...Buenos Aires airport, Dr. Castroviejo stepped out of the plane into an acute embarrassment, Dr. Ramon Cas-troviejo, a native of Castile, Spain, and now a citizen of the U.S., is a crack eye surgeon from Manhattan's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center; Argentina's President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz is almost blind. The doctor's embarrassment was caused by the crowd at the airfield, who put two & two together...
...Horrible Hohenzollern," buck-toothed King Carol II of Rumania, put his Jewish Mistress Magda Lupescu aboard his Royal Train at Bucharest and rattled off to Paris where Magda alighted and remained. His Majesty was brought to Dover on the British destroyer Montrose, received a 21-gun salute from Dover Cas tle, was met in London by the heir to the Throne, the Duke of York, and took up residence in the house of a sister of one time U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Her husband, the Irish Earl of Granard, was Master of the Horse to King...