Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...against gun controls, is less subtle: a Scout learns how to shoot and how to cook the game he kills. More popular are lessons in how to pan for gold. "There's nothing dopey about trying it," says Frank Gallagher, 15, of State College, Pa. "I know a kid who did it in North Carolina and got himself $45 worth...
...intimates refer to as "Kingie." Mr. Franklin, as the author calls him, ostensibly dug his huge fortune from a silver mine at Tonopah, Nev. Gradually, though, it emerges that this sober, self-educated man had earlier been a desperado, a gunman allied with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Inexorably, his scapegrace past catches up with the nouveau aristocrat of Norfolk. Fortunately, he has thought to pack his two .44 Remingtons...
...great he is." The solution: Ad became one of Hollywood's top agents, a status she solidified one afternoon on the casting couch of the mightiest mogul of them all, Louis B. Mayer. She paid Budd 25? and up for every certified classic he read as a kid, and he acted out her cultural aspirations. But he seems to have vaguely disliked her meddling ways, just as he seems to have vaguely liked his always distant father. Plainly, he wanted to know him better, and her less well...
...finders visit dozens of private schools a year. Boarding schools specializing in laggard students are much in demand. Says Beverly Hills Counselor Harriett Bay: "Rarely does a parent come in with a terrific little kid seeking a terrific school. Most come in a moment of crisis...
Buckley said that despite his Ivy League background, he has been generally well-accepted by the other players. "They kid me a lot about it, but it's usually good natured," he said, adding "some of them are a little leery about me being from Harvard, but most of them are curious about what it was like--they are surprised when I tell them, we had no athletic scholarships and no Spring training...