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...millions of American youngsters, Johnny soon found himself playing football and filling out. A good deal of personal determination entered into it. His mother remembers that Johnny went on a cod-liver-oil binge, once drank 17 pints of it in a single week. "Do you know who his idol was in those days?" asks Mrs. Lattner. "It was Superman." Johnny recalls: "By the time I was in the eighth grade, nobody picked on me any more...
...renegade bloc of Socialists merged with Rosa Luxemburg's and Karl Liebknecht's Spartakusbund in 1920 to form the German Communist Party, Walter Ulbricht was there as a charter member. He was an enthusiastic organizer and well-crammed encyclopedia of the dictums and ambiguities of his idol, Lenin. But his prime talent was treachery...
Died. William Farnum, 76, oldtime idol of the silent screen; in Los Angeles. Making his cinema debut in The Spoilers (1914), He-Man Farnum outpunched Villain Tom Santschi in the-movies' first bloody balcony-to-street saloon brawl, spent three days in the hospital with a broken nose, cuts and bruises, bent ribs. In the early '20s Farnum made as much as $520,000 a year, lost $2,000,000 in the '29 crash, survived the transition to sound to play supporting roles (Samson and Delilah...
...finally quit ("Who wants to get thrown around by little punks?"). Wrestling has its own hazards-Szabo has had his nose broken six times-but it pays him some $50,000 a year, and he plans to keep at it for a while. After that? "I'm the idol of all women from 45 up to 80," says Sandor, and a singing career is "much easier." "I think I'll be like Bing Crosby...
Inspired by such exclamations, about 300 enthusiastic young Communists, with red roses and carnations in their hands and the Internationale on their lips, gathered at Paris' Gare du Nord on a chilly, drizzly morning, waiting for the Nord Express and their idol. But the Communist Party was not yet ready to expose the wonders of Soviet medicine to their view. At St. Quentin, 80 miles from Paris, the door of a special Polish private car attached to the Nord Express opened, and Thorez showed himself...