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...were playing-tier upon tier the fans stood bareheaded for a minute of silent tribute. In baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y., mourners filed past a black-draped plaque. For the baseball world last week mourned 37-year-old Lou Gehrig, onetime Yankee first baseman, who Lad succumbed after two years to a rare, incurable disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
...School of Chemistry, who last week busied himself taking up a private collection for the boy. The chief chemist of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.'s Argentine branch examined Jorge, found he has the chemical background of a college sophomore. A charming, volatile lad, Jorge can rattle off the laws of Faraday, Gay-Lussac, Pascal, Torricelli faster than most scholars twice his age can follow. Last week Santa Fé's Parliament debated the question of appropriating 50,000 pesos to continue his education, decided to turn the case over to a Senate committee for further...
...Department's personality kid was born thirty-four years ago in the rural outskirts of Norwich, Connecticut. He spent a delightful childhood playing among the railroad ties and stealing apples, and at an early age impressed his teachers with his wisdom and precocity. After class hours the bare-footed lad would work his way into a circus by watering the elephants, or would pensively watch the village blacksmith as he laid the foundations of the Weltanschung which he later passed to his students. His chief ambition at this time was to run around like his older brother, who belonged...
Marjorie, disappointed by such nonsense, hopes this second voice appearance will make the lad bolder, and perhaps by opening night on the twenty-third he will...
Reference by Admiral Willson to colored cadet at Annapolis illustrates Navy standard of honesty, since this lad was literally driven from the Academy by the treatment accorded him by Midshipmen and Faculty members alike. Naval Academy action is of a piece with Navy policy which restricts Negro enlistments to mess attendants only, and illustrates perfectly hypocrisy of war-cry against totalitarian cruelties while practising same doctrines here in America. Of course Harvard should have refused to play. (signed) Roy Wilkins, Assistant Secretary, N.A.A.C.P...