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Scott Fitzgerald wrote short stories with the speed of a tabloid rewrite man, and for the journeyman's unvarying reason: to satisfy a desperate and constant need for money. The legend is familiar; when dun notes piled too high during the bright, wild days with Zelda, Scott could lock himself in a room and come out next morning with a story salable...
Newsboy was so penurious that he would dun a debtor for a few pennies, but his attachment to cash frequently led to his losing it. The cops sometimes found money in the secondhand cars that Newsboy kept stashed around the city-and invariably Newsboy had to disclaim ownership of the money to avoid explaining where it came from. Once he turned up at a hospital bleeding from stab wounds, and the police discovered $3,000 in his car. Said Newsboy: "I never saw it before." Again, he was picked up on the street near an auto that yielded...
...Bishop Dun, 70, will not be able to carry the job through. This week, he will retire after 18 years of heading the diocese. Scholarly Rt. Rev. William Forman Creighton, 53, former bishop coadjutor of the diocese, replaces him. Bishop Dun preached his last sermon on Easter before 3,400 worshipers. Recalling it in the true spirit of his cathedral, he says: "I felt a little wave of being slightly moved, and I thought, 'That's the last time I'll walk in with the trumpets and the pomp.' It gives one a little sense...
...bring the cathedral to its present grandeur. At today's costs, $15 million more will be needed to finish it down to its final gargoyle and grotesque. If the money were now in hand, the job could be finished within 15 years. Progress, says the Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, Episcopal bishop of Washington, depends "on very substantial legacies and gifts." The present construction fund-mainly the bequest of the late Harriette Chandler Sheldon and her brother James, of a New York banking family-amounts to four million dollars...
...father (Don Collier) is just an ordinary joe who owns a fishing boat in a Florida backwater and knows Mantle & Maris about as well as he knows Dun & Bradstreet. The boy, a lovable little liar called Hutch (Bryan Russell), is a utility outfielder in the Little League, and he hasn't yet learned that a small lie usually leads to a big lie: "Sure, I'll get Man'le an' Maris t' come ta the Little League banquit...