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...kids each night, but instead of Peter Rabbit, their bedtime stories were the political theories of Jefferson and Paine, basic economics and the National Geographic. By the time he was ten, young Hubert was able-and boundlessly willing-to discuss the merits of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points...
...Fourteen voters put the finger on bidding between the National and American football leagues for college players while nine cast their ballots for an increased swing to participation sports such as bowling, hunting and fishing, and boating...
...forced to slow down. From 1953 until his death, he spent most of his time "aging in the ports and capitals of southern Europe," drinking, bragging, anxious about his "unique physique" and his past performances: "Since my teens I have gone to bed twelve or fourteen thousand nights." He recalls fondly how he kept busy ducking alimony payments, reminisces bravely about the time he kicked Hedda Hopper, curses Hollywood for being "the ruin of creative personalities" like his own. At book's end he pulls himself together, steps back into the only role he was ever able to play...
...varsity tied the score on a layup by Bob Bowditch, then went ahead to stay on a free threw by Bry Danner. Two of the visitors' top scorers were burdened with three personal fouls early in the contest helping the Crimson to maintain a lead of between four and fourteen points...
...Fourteen Hours. Faced with these problems, most Indians beg for time that may not be available. India has been independent only twelve years, they say, and already the inequities of the caste system have been abolished-at least by law if not in practice. The sacredness of cows and the dark night of ignorance will give way, too, they insist, if slowly. But help must come from abroad, and ways and means of rechanneling the stream of Indian life will certainly be discussed this week by Eisenhower and Prime Minister Nehru...