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...characteristic phenomenon among bright children, says Dr. Hollingworth. Many of them had not struck their parents as remarkable. Nor had they been particularly noted by their teachers, who observed only that, from having skipped grades, they were two or three years younger than their classmates. One 8-year-old lad, who had developed from the age of four a gift for drawing maps, had long been in conflict with his teacher over his habit of drawing them in the classroom after he finished his lessons. Said he: "When the teacher said, 'I must kill this map-drawing...
...Palmiston's Derby winner, Blue Bolt. When wife (Rosalind Russell) and crony (Robert Benchley) walk out on him, taking much of life's beauty and all of its humor back to Washington Square, Painter Montgomery hits the skids. Near bottom his eye lights on a ghetto lad selling flowers. He collars him, explains to the boy's dubious mother that he wants to paint the lad. Says she: ''What color?" From then on Mammon begins losing rounds. The escapade winds up with reconciled principals pushing puffy Mr. Palmiston through the portrait of Blue Bolt...
Mayor Nouveau, spying John Roosevelt-or his spitting image-going past in an open carriage, hurried down from his reviewing stand to give the city's distinguished guest a handsome bouquet, and an eloquent French welcome. The lad picked up a bottle of champagne from the carriage floor, squirted it full in his beaming face. While the gushing stream coursed down over the mayor's best suit of clothes, the gay youngster, taking the Battle of Flowers in too literal a sense, seized the proffered bouquet and brought it down vigorously on the donor's head...
...York City's outlying boroughs chose as their candidate one of the most distinguished looking gentlemen in New York City, Grover Aloysius Whalen. His father was Mike Whalen, an Irish contractor who never got very far in the world, but who named his son Grover because the lad was born June 2, 1886, the day that one of New York State's greatest Democratic politicians, Grover Cleveland, was married to Frances Folsom (now Mrs. Preston) in the White House. Grover got his start in politics when he was 30 by working for the election of John...
After his ordination, Minister Jaynes proudly showed off his certificate while Evangelist Drake, as if defensively, said: "This lad's only seven years in age, but 70 in experience." Piped Rev. Charles Jaynes Jr.: "I want to be a preacher, a drummer, and I also want to drive all kinds of fire trucks, and the chief's car, and to be a policeman, a chief engineer, that's all I want to be-oh, yes, and I want to be a ballplayer...