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Citizens big & small chipped in: Carmelo Digerlando, 64, a blue-aproned shoemaker whose eyes have grown dim and his hair white since he left Sicily 40 years ago; Judge T. Linus Hoban, a war hero; thrifty, 13-year-old newsboy Harold Kornfeld; live wire Roy Stauffer, Chevrolet dealer. Total number of bond buyers...
...Indianapolis, Mrs. Marietta Buchanan, whose son was lost in the Pacific, cried with rage: "I'd like to fly over there and drop more bombs myself." In Tulsa, a newsboy hawking extras cried out: "Japs Surrendering." Asked a woman war worker: "Are there comics in this paper...
...author is a certain shady newsboy named White," snarled Pravda when a condensation of this book appeared in the December 1944 Reader's Digest. "The book itself ... is the usual stew from the Fascist kitchen, with all its smells, calumnies, ignorance, and hidden anger." U.S. Reds were equally outraged by what balding, square-jawed Bill White, son of the late, great William Allen White, had to report of his six-week trip through Russia with Eric Johnston. And even non-Communist friends of the Soviet sharply criticized him for attempting to measure by U.S. standards a very different...
...sample record made in Richmond, Va., the unmistakable sounds of home set the scene-the chimes of St. Paul's church, the yelp of a newsboy, the tapping of tall heels, the clack-clack-clack of traffic over the Ninth Street Bridge. Neatly interlarded are remembered voices telling of remembered places, and quiet-spoken promises...
...life. He began by putting Bergen through high school and almost through Northwestern University, and got him into Delta Upsilon. Charlie was whittled out 25 years ago by a Chicago barkeep named Mack (price: $35). He was modeled on a sketch Bergen made of a red headed Chicago newsboy. Bergen was then 16, the gawky, moody second son of a Swedish immigrant named Berggren who had run a retail dairy business in Chicago and a farm near Decatur, Mich...