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...must have been a little bastard," the grownup Freddy candidly admits, "but I was always the leader." What bothered his teachers more than the way he flunked courses was such extracurricular activity as yelling obscenities from the auditorium balcony, or commandeering textbooks from other pupils and selling them back for two bits apiece, "way below wholesale cost," as one of the old gang puts it. Conscious even then of his big voice, he liked to sneak up behind victims in the school corridors and blat a loud note into their ears. Southern High expelled him within two months of graduation...
...through blocks of embarrassed silence, of a young girl expressing her innocent confidence that she can take love or leave it alone. ("It's all right to be in love, as long as you don't spend too much time at it.") Though a bit wobbly with grownup troubles, Elizabeth Pollet has a pretty sure hand when she turns to Paul and explores the world with him as if it had never been seen before...
Last week Austria's officials were again interested in Thorleif's features. As a grownup, onetime Cherub Capri had been appointed fund raiser for Austria's Orphans' Aid Society. He had got his hands as well as his face on 37,000 schillings' worth of banknotes and quietly absconded...
Prince Akihito, heir to the Japanese throne, who will be 16 in December, had to get along with a secondhand sack suit as his first grownup outfit. Emperor Hirohito agreed that his son should have a man's suit, but it seemed uneconomical to buy a new one. So the Emperor ordered his old dark brown, big-checked tweed taken out of mothballs and altered to fit the young prince...
...Dismal Grownups. From New York, Nehru went to Boston, visited Harvard, M.I.T. and Wellesley, where 1,700 college girls gave him a cheery reception. He wished, he told them, that he did not have to make so many speeches in the U.S. "Grownup people like myself," he said, "grow more & more dismal, talking dismal subjects...