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...when his father died and he was sent to Fort Worth to live with an aunt and uncle. By the time he was ready for junior high, his adopted parents moved to Dallas, where he teamed up with a boy named Doak Walker on the football field of Highland Park High School...
Bobby began his career as a guard, but before long he was calling signals from the tailback slot in Highland Park's single wing. Day after day, when the rest of the squad had finished practice, the two boys would work at place-kicking-Bobby holding, Doak booting-until it was too dark to see the goal posts. After the football season, Bobby played basketball; one spring he pitched the local American Legion baseball team to the state championship. By the time he entered the University of Texas in 1944, he was good enough for a baseball scholarship...
This week, as Hillsboro's Negro children prepared to go back to their school, now slightly charred. Highland County was still paying Partridge's salary, and the principle -if it is one-that civil servants are not answerable for their private thoughts and deeds was, for the moment, at least, preserved...
...Walt Disney's highland fling through an old Scots story; with Richard Todd, Glynis Johns (TIME...
...Walt Disney's highland fling through an old Scots story; with Richard Todd, Glynis Johns (TIME...