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Purple Danger. Fred Wallace had been a bleeder since birth. The absence of AHG (antihemophilic globulin) from his blood taught him early to live with danger. Every childhood spill, every bloody nose, was agonizingly slow to heal. The scrapes and scuff marks of a growing boy remained for weeks as ugly, purple discolorations under the skin. But Fred, like most hemophiliacs, survived all such crises. Then the disease caused other problems. Last spring, on a Sunday outing, Fred and his father had walked away from their parked car so that Fred might snap a picture. Inexplicably, the car started rolling...
...Ugly American, based on the 1958 bestseller in which Eugene Burdick and William Lederer angrily arraigned the arrogance, ignorance and indifference of Americans stationed abroad, was initially intended as a slashing attack on the sort of official who thinks he can heal the world's wounds by rubbing gold in them. It turns out to be just one more installment of Terry and the Pirates...
More sophomores will give the Crimson strength in most of the other field events. The team will rely heavily on Art Croasdale in the shot put and hammer throw, and if Croasdale's injured hand continues to heal he should improve on his excellent winter showing. Loren Clayman will support Croasdale in the hammer, and sophomore Ray Freiden may help out in the shot...
...pent-up bully is almost unknown at Maple Park, and children disturbed by sickness, divorce of parents, newborn brothers or sisters, or a death in the family, get a break. While facing up to the problem, they can slow down at school, thus heal emotions faster. Scott Warren, now eleven, was once so ill that he missed more than half a year of first-grade fundamentals. In a graded school, says his teacher mother, he might never have caught up. "In the ungraded plan, he missed absolutely nothing, going along very slowly until he was able to step up with...
That strike has already made many wounds. Nearly 20,000 men are out of work; 5,700,000 readers are without their papers; 350 blind news vendors have shuttered their stands; the city's economic pulse has measurably slowed. But these wounds are superficial, and will eventually heal. The strike cuts far deeper, by raising questions that will nag at the consciences of those directly involved long after the publishers and the printers have come to terms...