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...front row at London's Covent Garden sat a chubby Irish lad who thought he knew something about singing, too. He had a gold medal from a Dublin musical festival to prove it. And he had been making $50 a week, singing at the St. Louis Exposition. That night in 1905 he first heard the great Enrico Caruso in La Boheme. "The best lesson . . . I ever received," John McCormack said, years later. The lesson: that a singer with a natural gift, and powerful lungs, still had to work...
...Gale Hun, 67, founder (1914) and headmaster of the Hun School (boy's preparatory) and of Princeton's best-known tutoring school; of a stomach hemorrhage; in Trenton, N.J. A famed teacher of dullards, an inveterate poker player, a kindly wit, Dr. Hun helped many a husky lad get into Princeton University and stay there...
Said Defense Lawyer Comandini: "Were it not for Fascism, which encouraged political crime, Koch might have been an honest man. I have a photograph of him when a boy where he has his head on his mother's lap. That is the Koch I am defending. A lad gone astray under a tyranny which encouraged cruelty...
...squatty lad with the Irish name looked no more like a prizefighter than any other Mexican in Southern California. He had a baby face, black curly hair, a noticeable lack of pugilistic rip & tear, an immense, nerveless calm. Last week, Nick Moran bounced into a Los Angeles ring to be butchered (the odds were 12-to-1 against him) by World's Lightweight Champion Bob Montgomery. Before the fight, reporters tried to elbow their way to his dressing room and were shushed away with: "He's like Napoleon ... he can sleep anytime, and he's sleeping...
...name's Harlow," announced the lad who had just landed in the Fort Benning guard house. "I'm in very high spirits. The M.P.s picked me up because these are no days for high spirits...