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...long way," he admitted himself, "a lot further than people believe. The hard part was to keep faith in myself when everybody else was knocking me. Just my faith in God, my wife and my own self have kept me going." At the end of the long, tough training grind, Sugar seemed to have recovered some of his old confidence. On his last day in training camp, he nodded toward two of his sparring partners-aggressive, Olson-type plodders-and asked his managers, "We won't be needing these gorillas any more, will we?" "No," said the managers...
...back-room dentist took out six teeth, but ran into trouble on a seventh. "My gums bled and swelled up so much he couldn't grind any more," she recalls. Despite her pain, the dentist extracted full payment from her before she left. Agnes Jones had to go back again and again to have her gums treated. When she finally got her plates, they fitted so badly that her mouth swelled unbearably. Not until another dentist had her mouth X-rayed was it found that the back-room dentist had broken a tooth and ground it below...
...Owen Wister of Virginian fame wrote a short novel entitled Philosophy 4. In this work two fair-haired, hearty, fun-loving, all-American boys, Bertie and Billy, are contrasted to their supercilious, swarthy, second-generation-American tutor, Oscar Maironi. Bertie and Billy are well-rounded, while Oscar is a grind. The story centers around preparation for a final exam in Harvard's Philosophy 4. Bertie and Billy pay Oscar to tutor them in the course material, because with playing tennis, taking carriage rides, and learning to be men, they have not found time to attend lectures or do the reading...
...hours' sleep," she says, "and haven't been getting it. I'm at the studio by 9 a.m., on the air all five days from 10:15 to noon, then again from 2 to 3:30. Frankly, I thought it was going to be a grind. But I'm having fun. I love being a performer. Once I start talking, everybody says they can't shut...
Anybody who wants to see the whole show at the Exeter can stay to watch the main feature, Holiday for Henrietta. A fairly amusing if rather light-weight French comedy, the picture relates the agony of a couple of script writers trying to grind out a scenario for a new movie. Each idea they dredge up is shown acted out as if it were part of the finished production...