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Nowadays, practicing and performing take so much time that Michael has to get his schooling from a tutor. A cocky, self-assured lad, he has already learned 20 concertos, including what he calls "the standard box-office concertos"-Brahms, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky. He will soon get a chance to perform all of them. His parents are allowing him a limited number of engagements (24 this season), mostly with symphony orchestras. He likes playing in public. "Stage fright? What's that?" Does he like turning pro so young? "Oh, yes. I like going from city to city...
Among unfulfilled requests are those from girls overseas who want American husbands, and those asking for medical cures, contest answers and complete data for students' term papers. One unabashed lad even asked us to send him all our envelopes so that he could sell the stamps...
Plump, jovial Mayor Weston called a meeting of Coventry's Friendship Committee. The same day he received a shocking piece of news: his daughter's fiance, Lieut. John Godfrey, a 19-year-old Coventry lad, had been killed in Korea. But that didn't stop him, or Coventry, or the dinner of scarce roast beef and Yorkshire pudding he had arranged for the Guildhall ceremony...
...believe his six-year-old son's story that he has a secret friend named Mr. Beelzy, who won't let anybody hurt him ("He said he'd come like a lion, with wings on, and eat them up"). Father goes upstairs to give the lad a spanking. "It was on the second-floor landing," the tale concludes, "that they found the shoe, with the man's foot still in it, like that last morsel of a mouse which sometimes falls unnoticed from the side of the jaws...
...nauseated over the allegedly "brilliant" premedical student at George Washington who had chosen medicine "to make a lot of money in a hurry." I have news for that confused lad...