Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snork is Uncle Don. When he was a boy (Howard Rice, son of a horseshoe nail salesman), his pals in St. Joseph, Mich, called him "Punk." Now he is a fattish, fiftyish, rheumy-eyed, flashy-dressing showman. As a kid, he learned enough piano chords by ear to get some local esteem as a musician. Because he found he could play the piano standing on his head, he became Don Carney, the Trick Pianist of vaudeville. He got into radio 14 years ago. One day, on a half-hour's notice, he was assigned to do a children...
...being caught giving a teacher a "hot-seat", into having his name forged on the pawn ticket for the school's band instruments, though guilty of cribbing in an exam, he blunderingly comes out near the top, even to winning the girl, acted by Betty Field, from the popularity kid, played by one James Corner...
...Bavarian adolescent Ludwig Bemelmans was known to his family as a Lausbub, or Katzenjammer kid. At 16, when he was shipped to the U. S., his Uncle Hans summed up a last desperate family hope when he anticipated that the cunning Americans would shear Ludwig's pelt, clip his horns. At 41, Bemelmans is a brilliant contradiction of family prophecy-a famed artist, author and illustrator of four children's classics* (Hansi, Quito Express et al.), and of two adult volumes (My War With the United States, Life Class) which rank with the most engaging of reminiscences...
Married. Frederick Bernard ("Boiler Kid") Snite Jr., 29, infantile paralysis victim, and Teresa Larkin, 25; in River Forest, Ill. While touring China in 1936 Fred Snite was seized by poliomyelitis. His diaphragm muscles paralyzed, he would have suffocated had he not been near Peiping Union Medical College Hospital, which owned an iron lung. A year later, when his wealthy father (in the small loan, furniture and real-estate business in Chicago) decided to bring Fred home, it was necessary to transfer him from one iron lung to another. The transfer took three precarious minutes, left Fred gasping and half-strangled...
Tapping out their stories, the baseball writers applauded Yankee Di Maggie's homerun and Yankee Gordon's seemingly impossible one-handed catch of hard-hitting Cardinal Medwick's line drive, but the headlines were all for Bob Feller. The dimple-chinned kid, who still sleeps in a nightgown, pouts when he is dissatisfied and goes to zoos for amusement, was at last recognized as one of the greatest pitchers of all time. With paternal pride the experts pointed to the youngster's record so far this season: 14 victories and only three defeats (better than...