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...Five bucks says they won't do it," a red-cheeked lad commented. We told him we didn't gamble, and also gently reminded him that he was implanted on our toes. An old woman with black coat and cane tottered across the safety line, and an officer quickly retrieved...
Finally the crowd moved to the auditorium, people sat down, and candidates strode to the platform. The first speaker, a brusque, barrel-chested lad, bemoaned the fact that "we may have a team going without a coach." And sobbing, he sat down. Then a woman running for City Council arose and said absent-mindedly, "I am a candidate for re-election to the School Committee...
...trouble with Armand was that his bold, naughty papa had marched him to a bordello as a teen-age boy to learn the facts of life, which so flustered the sensitive lad that he flunked the course. Papa had been the iron duke, so imperious that he threatened to have his manservant buried with him when he died, "at my feet, of course." By contrast, poor Armand is such an average Jean that chauffeurs, spotting him near the Daimler, ask him whom he drives for. Can this shy, sweet and sad duke ever find Miss Right? Out of this soapy...
...logging camp. Ethel Murrow, now nearing 80, was a frugal, hard-working Methodist who read her boys a Bible chapter every night until they went off to college. She wanted Egbert to be a preacher; he now regards religion as "more ethics than faith." She recalls him as a lad with a strong sense of duty and determination, who could not wait to grow up to his brothers' level. Typically, when a photographer was once posing the two brothers in their school clothes, little Egbert, not yet old enough for school, grabbed a book and crashed the picture with...
...Thing He Hated. Orval Faubus did not learn about segregation in the Ozarks. "He never saw a Negro until he was a grown lad," said Uncle Sam. "Then he went away North to follow the strawberry crop when he was about 18. We only had one Negro family in Madison County in those days, and they lived way down on the crick where nobody ever saw 'em. I told Orval not to hate anybody of any race. I told him people would think he was narrow-minded and would look down on him." Then Old Sam provided...