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Some of the contestants went out on words they obviously knew, because of stage fright (one girl tripped on across). Indianapolis' entry, twelve-year-old William Frazer, wore a red-plaid "lucky" shirt, its pockets overflowing with rabbits' feet and four-leaf clovers. (He went out on mendacious.) The audience's obvious favorite was Mattie Lou Pollard, 13, who goes to a one-room schoolhouse in Thomaston, Ga. and has had only one teacher all her life. (She lost on anarchy.) Third-place winner, Leslie Dean, 12, of Hawthorne, N.J., flunked on asceticism. Other toughies: hypotenuse, covenants...
...associate editor of Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. Now he is so influential that he has to mind what he says. Once he mentioned that his shoe laces were frayed. The next mail' brought 46 new pairs. A theater offered free admission to patrons bringing four-leaf clovers. The day after Cedric printed the item, the theater turned away a 9,000 overflow, had only one cash customer. When he said a Minnesota serviceman in Alaska wanted a piano, Cedric got 19. Naturally he is in constant demand for charity drives, civic promotions, master of ceremonies' chores...
Jackpot. In Towanda, Pa., Carl Sloat, in one tour of his backyard, ran across a double four-leaf clover, a V-shaped potato, and his wife's wedding ring...
Since the glider program has been under way, a touch of Tom Swift and His Wonderful Airship has crept into the shoptalk of Army airmen. As of Jan. 1, Army glider pilots, like Army gliders, were rare as four-leaf clovers. Few air experts knew what gliders could do (except for what they had read about Crete). As far as the U.S. public was concerned, gliding was still a game for a few nutty newsreel daredevils around Elmira...
...irony as his pictures. Once he told his fellow-Iowan Henry Wallace that he had just perfected a type of clover seed that would increase the nation's clover crop by one-third. Agog, Wallace pressed Wood for details, found it was "a seed that grows nothing but four-leaf clovers...