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...football taught him. When Johnny was in the sixth grade, his father gave him a helmet, and. like other millions of American youngsters, Johnny soon found himself playing football and filling out. A good deal of personal determination entered into it. His mother remembers that Johnny went on a cod-liver-oil binge, once drank 17 pints of it in a single week. "Do you know who his idol was in those days?" asks Mrs. Lattner. "It was Superman." Johnny recalls: "By the time I was in the eighth grade, nobody picked on me any more...
...tenth hole of Cape Cod's Eastward Ho! course, with an uphill green, left-hander Colcord teed off using a lethal brassie. Having neglected to shout "fore," and because he lost the ball in a bright sun, Colcord braced himself for an expected embroglio as the preceding foursome turned and set at him with high-pitched shouts...
...Sacred Cod...
...Bakr's work on our Stafe Capitol; but no son of the Commonwealth could ever accept that dried-up thing Baker conjured up as a codfish! Ernest Hamlin Baker should change his fish market . . . His caudal fin, dorsal fins, maxillary, eye, missing barbel, etc., have turned our Sacred Cod into a hunk of gurry...
Artist Baker's model was Boston's own Sacred Cod, which hangs high in the house of representatives in the State Capitol...