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While plumping before a House committee for a $10 million bill to battle juvenile delinquency, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff delivered an obiter dictum on child labor legislation. A New Britain, Conn. newsboy at eight and a milkman's helper at twelve, the Polish immigrant's son suspected that present statutes would have slowed his own running start, faulted "laws that do too much coddling of children." Said he: "I think it's better for a boy to take a job as delivery boy for a drugstore than to be hanging around a drugstore corner...
...self-torture of laboring lap after lap, mile after mile. Most of the top distance runners are well into their 20s, and often beyond. But this year the perennial stars are being run into the boards by a Canadian high school senior: 17-year-old Bruce Kidd, the neighborhood newsboy back home in Toronto, who can cruise through the three-mile grind as though it were a jaunt to the corner soda shop...
...dope peddler (Ricardo Montalban). He grows up on Skid Row, where his playmates are rumblebums and his self-appointed guardians are a germy old barfly (Burl Ives), a good-natured prostitute (Jeanne Cooper), a slugnutty prizefighter (Rudolph Acosta), a junk-jabbing ginmill canary (Ella Fitzgerald) and a legless newsboy (Walter Burke) who packs a pretty little...
...audience, on any occasion. His formal speeches have been clocked at a breathless 250 words per minute-every word clearly and distinctly enunciated. He can drown out any competition merely by raising his rasping voice an octave. (His younger sister Frances remembers him as a South Dakota newsboy: "When he stood out there on Main Street in front of the drugstore, holding an armload of St. Paul Dispatches, you could hear him all over town.") His 8½-hour filibuster with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev left the interpreters reeling; Humphrey has talked about it ever since. Once, as a graduate...
...think so. The TV scandal touched off by the confessions of Charles Van Doren (see SHOW BUSINESS) seemed to leave the U.S. "bewildered," said he. It reminded him of the time when the Chicago White Sox were accused of taking bribes to throw the 1919 World Series; a bewildered newsboy went to Outfielder "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and said, "Say it ain't so, Joe." Obstinacy at the bargaining table and dishonesty on the air waves, Ike went on, are reminders that "selfishness and greed . . . occasionally get the ascendancy over those things that we like to think...