Word: clean-cut
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...this spare, direct first novel by a 25-year-old Californian, the members of the triangle are less interesting than the author's skill at triangulation. The draftee hero is clean-cut enough to be a sidekick of Frank Merriwell. The girl is sweet enough to grace a soap ad. And the bedeviled antagonist is the victim of an unconscious drive that makes him pathetic rather than villainous. Yet this is the kind of book that demands to be read at one sitting: the people may not be important, but their story...
...will take more than talk, though, to get Pete Rademacher back in the ring with Patterson. This time it took a $250,000 guarantee put up by Pete's employer, an amorphous corporation named Youth Unlimited, Inc. founded in Columbus, Ga., for the avowed purpose of promoting clean-cut professional athletes who will be a credit to sport. For their money, Pete's backers promoted themselves little more than a trip to the Northwest. Their share of the gate was less than half of what they spent, and there are rumors that Patterson's manager...
...Slender, clean-cut Martin Daniels Jr., 16, had a problem, a pal and a plan. Marty's problem was his father. Martin Daniels Sr.. 35, a shiftless unemployed dockworker. Even in seedy, rough-and-tumble South Philadelphia, where the Daniels family lived in a three-room, $50-a-month apartment, Daniels Sr. was known as a hard-drinking no-good with a long record of arrests-burglary, assault and battery, stabbing, and slugging a cop. He was also rough on Marty, eldest of his six sons-a roughness that hardened into perpetual rage last fall, when...
Back in Hong Kong, a few hours later, Bush and friend once more met the beautiful Chinese girl and the tearfully grateful father of the boy. "He was," said Bush, "a clean-cut, distinguished-looking man," though they never got his name. The father offered the two men $10,000 apiece, which they both said they refused, but they did accept $800 gold wristwatches appropriately engraved in Chinese: ". . . You will be remembered forever." Then Bush went on to Tokyo, Sullivan back to Bangkok...
...sign up a new member, while Dave was making speeches at union meetings." But in 1925, when the Teamsters held their national convention in Seattle, it was Speechmaker Beck who caught the favor of International President Dan Tobin. Says another old Teamster: "Dan thought he could control a nice, clean-cut lad like Dave Beck." Result: Brewster was bypassed, and Beck got the promotion-promising job as I.B.T. organizer in Seattle...