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From earliest childhood, Stagg recalls, "we used to give one or two cents as our church contribution." Food was plain but plentiful: home-grown vegetables dominated the table, eked out with home-fattened hogs (whose bladders "Lon" used for "pigskins" and ball tossing). Lon swam and skated, got into one-hand and three-hand baseball...
...Lon Stagg was 21 before he got to Phillips Exeter Academy to cram for college, lived Spartanly for a while on soda crackers while he pitched the baseball team to victory. Then he saw his first real football game (Yale 6, Princeton o). Dartmouth College offered him a baseball berth, but it had no divinity school. Yale had one, so it was to Yale that Stagg went, aged 22, with $32 to his name. He always ran from job to class to garret-largely because he had no overcoat to keep out New Haven's raw, dank cold...
...Hunchback of Notre Dame (Paris; Allied Artists) offers a Quasimodo (Anthony Quinn) who is as ugly as an iguana, but as lovable as a kitten and no more frightening. In two earlier filmings of Victor Hugo's romance, Lon Chaney (1923) and Charles Laughton (1939) took care to spook the audience out of its wits before building up sympathy for the. lovesick, crookbacked bell ringer. But the current Technicolor version (with a French supporting cast, dubbed-in English) introduces Notre Dame's resident troll tenderly stroking a pigeon on one of the cathedral's balustrades...
Overdrive Test. In Bellflower, Calif., Truck Driver Lon F. Allen, 27, explained why he tried to run over a highway patrolman: "I wanted to prove I was not afraid of a policeman...
...versatile voice all over his only sound movie, a talking version of The Unholy Three, in which he played both a ven- triloquist and a fiendish old lady. There was a popular gag going around at that time about insects: "Don't step on it; it may be Lon Chaney in disguise!" Chaney regarded the quip as a true com- pliment...