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...chat and joke with the villagers and soldiers. Good-humoredly he posed for cameramen, tinkering with a U. S.-made tommy gun (see cut), chewing on a big cigar. Playfully he watched a brash eleven-year-old click his toy pistol at him, laughed, "You've got me, lad...
Twenty-eight years ago, President Skinner hired a clumsy, bespectacled high-school lad named James T. Buckley to work in the chemistry lab. He broke so much glassware that he was transferred to engineering. There he broke so many hard-rubber jars (for storage batteries) that Skinner yanked him out again. Only other possible spot was the drafting room-and young Buckley was nearsighted. But Buckley got his chance, soon rose to head draftsman, to purchasing agent, to treasurer. Last year, when Skinner retired, he became Philco's president...
Although Freshmen are notoriously unfamiliar with their academic surroundings they are as Seniors when compared with the timid individual who next fall will enter these sacred precincts. No sooner has each poor, benighted lad gone through the ordeal of Board exams than he is besieged with printed matter from the college of his choice. Completely unnerved by the exams, he diligently reads the reams of material with which the denizens of University Hall flood the mail. These loyal members of Harvard's official staff all through the winter repress their urge for self-expression knowing that with the first spring...
When I was a little chunk of a shirt-tailed lad, a-hoeing corn on the steep hillside, I'd get to the end of a row and look up Troublesome Creek and wonder ij anybody would ever come to larn the young 'uns. Nobody ever come in. Nobody ever went out. We jist growed up and never knowed nothin'. I can't read nor write; many of my chilluns can't read nor write, but I have grands and greats as is the purtiest speakin' and the easiest larnin' of any chilluns...
...examination of the records in this city has failed to bring to light anything in the early years of the young Galilean prophet, Jesus, which would have indicated anything of a violent or seditious nature in his character. Those who knew him when he was a lad say that his work in his father's carpenter shop was excellent, and that, although he was "a real boy," his conduct was blameless at all times...