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Homer Macauley (Mickey Rooney) is a 14-year-old Postal Telegraph boy, "the fastest-moving thing in San Joaquin valley." He supports his fatherless family, runs the 220 low hurdles in school, is fresh to his history teacher and fights with a snob, one Hubert Ackley III. After school, Homer learns to be a man. His teachers are his boss, benevolently eccentric Tom Spangler (James Craig), and old Grogan (Frank Morgan) the telegrapher, who drinks every night to forget the sad messages that come over his wire. Freckled, four-year-old Ulysses (Jack Jenkins), called "Useless" for short...
...Make-It. Charlie Wilson, as top man of one of the nation's biggest manufacturing firms, brings a lifetime of manufacturing experience to the big production job. He grew up in Manhattan's shabby lower West Side, was left fatherless at three, had to go to work at twelve. He started as office boy in a General Electric subsidiary at $3 a week, never left the company, fought his way through the ranks as factory hand, clerk, accountant (a skill he picked up at night school). At 20 he was a factory manager, at 21 assistant superintendent. Then...
Shapiro's feat is the latest development in the artificial parthenogenesis, or sexless reproduction, of mammals. Sexless reproduction occurs naturally among many insects and has long been induced by curious biologists in sea urchins and frogs. Fatherless mammals were first produced in 1939 by Dr. Gregory Pincus (now of Clark University), who artificially fertilized ova from doe rabbits by 1) a salt solution, 2) heat, 3) cold. The salt-fertilized eggs, with no contact at all from the male, were replanted in the does and gestated normally into healthy bunnies, themselves capable of sexual reproduction...
...years ago, a gentle, dark-eyed boy of 17 stabbed his mother 32 times with a bread knife. He was quite intelligent: he worked night & day, in school, in a bakery and tending his fatherless brothers and sisters. Everyone in the neighborhood liked and respected...
Born (July 19, 1896) in Cardross, Scotland, Author Cronin had a fatherless boyhood full of hard labor and poverty, much like Father Chisholm's. He pulled himself out of it with the help of Carnegie Foundation scholarships and his uncle, a poor, kindly Catholic priest (the model for Father Chisholm). By working until he often dropped exhausted, Cronin became a doctor. But he really wanted to paint or write. Hatter's Castle enabled him to give up medicine: he has never practiced since...