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...Cambridge Traffic Commission at last is replacing the frail, chilly wooden traffic control tower in Harvard Square with a larger concrete-and-stainless-steel edifice. It will have copper trimmings; just about all it will lack is central heating...
When six-year-old Dickie Bonham began reading Mighty Mouse comic books a few months ago, he was overwhelmed by a pulse-stirring daydream: he began imagining himself flying through the air in red tights, a long-sleeved yellow pulloverand a flowing cape. He was a frail, asthmatic child, but doggedly determined; he hurried from his room in the Bonham home in Highland Park, Calif. and asked his mother whether he could learn to spread his arms...
...most surprising phenomena of the year had been the formidable strength and staying power of the frail-looking, 74-year-old Pontiff himself. No Pope had been seen by so many in a similar length of time; thousands were received in special or private audiences, 2,830,000 crowded into St. Peter's for general audiences, sometimes more than 40,000 at a time. During the year, 42,000 pilgrims took part in 34 international congresses held in Rome, and 203,558 visited special exhibitions of missionary...
Stephen Crane was born in Newark in 1871. He was the frail 14th child of a gentle Methodist pastor named Jonathan and an unyielding force of nature named Mary. "You could argue just as well with a wave," her favorite son once said. Baby Stephen's first intelligible query is supposed to have been: "Ma, how do you spell O?" He was obviously destined to be a writer. When he died of tuberculosis at 28, he had been that and other things...
Thus pale, frail, one-eyed Carl Giles, 36, famed cartoonist for Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express (circ. 4,222,000) describes himself in a book of his cartoons just published by the Express. But most Fleet-Streeters-and Express readers-would describe Giles more simply as, next to David Low, the best cartoonist in Britain. Even Americans, often baffled by British humor, think Giles is funny, and his cartoons now appear in 22 Canadian and eight U.S. newspapers...