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...During the last years I had, as Secretary of the Central Committee, to learn the Bolshevik work under the direct guidance of Lenin's best disciple, Comrade Stalin. I am proud of this. Until today I lad to work mainly as a Party worker. I declare to you, comrades, I am going to work in the Government also as a Party worker, as the agent of the Party's will...
...maidish, a stickler for "gentlemanly" conduct, Jones insists on immaculate all-white court clothes, impeccable court manners. Of his boys he says: "I'm more interested in how they live than in how they play." When he refused to back a Mexican lad named Gonzales, who could beat Herbie Flam, Jones was called a snob. He countered: "That's not true. I dropped him because he wouldn't go to school...
Both Cummings and Boston also boast valuable game experience and a sound background in the fundamentals of the Harlow system. Cummings was on the starting eleven for a good portion of the '42 season, and Boston, who saw less action, will be remembered as the lad who snagged a Jack Comerford pass against Penn in the only bright spot of a 19-7 going over administered by the Quakers...
John J. Cavanaugh, an ambitious lad of 18, first talked the chauffeur into introducing him to Notre Dame's president. Then he talked the president, the Rev. John W. Cavanaugh (no relation), into giving him a job as his secretary so he could earn his way through college. Last week at 47, "young John"-now the Rev. John himself-became Notre Dame's 14th president...
...sixth grade, Alpine, Texas lad and his companion were keenly disappointed upon learning, at the Dean's Office, that application could not be made until the senior year in high school. Especially perturbed was Howe, who had just told Tommie, "They usually get you in this place before you're born...