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...Whenever a storm with thunder and lightning moved over the sea, he would hurry out to the top of the cliffs as if he had a pact of friendship with the forces of nature, or even went on into the oakwood where the lightning had split a tall tree from top to bottom, which led him to murmur: 'How great, how mighty, how wonderful!' " Thus a friend remembered the wanderings...
Saved by Prayer. To preserve her son from that sin, Mother Reston took him out of Stivers High School in his junior year and moved the family into a better neighborhood so that Jimmy could be enrolled in Oakwood High. But by then he had discovered golf and his own facility for it-he was Ohio state high school champion in 1927-and the transfer almost did not take. Never a scholar, he neglected books for the links and other pastimes, came so close to dismissal that only the indignant intercession of his mother saved...
Waco never quite forgot its prairie Voltaire. The grass had hardly begun to cover his grave when a figure stole into Oakwood Cemetery and fired a gun point-blank at Brann's bas-relief profile on the stone. Like his contemporaries, those who followed could never agree whether he was saint or devil's apostle, infidel or genius. But, as Waco was reminded last week after almost 60 years, the words outdistanced the bullets...
Brown's field of concentration is History and Literature, Siler's History, and Slaggie's, Physics. Brown is a graduate of Groton School, Siler, of Ascalanes High School in California, Slaggie, of Oakwood High School, Dayton...
Joyce finds it hard to explain where her style came from. She never sang until five years ago, and she came from a San Francisco family of strict Seventh-Day Adventists. On her way to the Adventists' Oakwood College in Huntsville, Ala., she stopped off for a look at Los Angeles, visited a small nightclub, and landed a singing job after getting into an audience-participation act. She was the demure type in those days, with long hair and bouffant dresses-"real silly." She played such big rooms as Giro's in Hollywood and New Jersey...