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...ragamuffins drumming up trade for their father's barbershop. They had no money to buy instruments so they learned to ape them. The family moved to Bellefontaine, 30 miles away. John, the oldest, got a job in a greenhouse. Harry, the fattest, became a bootblack. Herbert, the slickest, turned hod-carrier. Young Don, 17 now, was lazy...
Original idea for the brick belonged to Howard F. Weiss, Manhattan chemist who figured out that what with loading, hauling, hod-carrying and mortaring, it costs four times as much to lay a brick as to make...
...second mile caught Tech. Nobody took this move seriously because up to that time nobody had considered Cornell seriously except to say that they were too heavy; that the stroke, blonde Robert McCrae Wilson Jr.. 19, suddenly recruited from the third varsity when towheaded Captain Horace D. ("Hod") Shoemaker fell ill, was too young; and that the No. 5, a bald-headed fruit-farmer, Peter J. McManus, 30. who had been inspired to go to college because he had seen so many crews row past his farm at Highland on the Hudson...
Music, Cheers, and songs will come from the train of young women armed with red torchlights and banners, and dressed in costumes varying from those worn by big business men to the attire of a hod carrier...
...Socialist-patriot Cesare Battisti in the city of Trent, then Austrian, but ceded to Italy after the War. Editor Battisti, always short handed, was assisted by the General Secretary of the local Socialist trade unions, one Benito Mussolini, an Italian youth who had worked for a time as a hod carrier in Switzerland and then picked up enough French to earn his living by teaching it. Helper Mussolini wrote perhaps a quarter of each daily issue of Il Popolo. He cleaned up editorial and publicational odd jobs innumerable. Then he snatched time to write the paper's weekly feuilleton...