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Unlike some of their elders, the young investigators were not content to make their reports and forget about them. Billy Buttelmann had found that there was no playground for blocks around for the younger kids in his neighborhood. Billy and a friend decided to build a clubhouse in a big, unused backyard. Soon the kids were playing there instead of in the streets...
...last week, as Mrs. Killer's experiment ended, Billy's playground was not the only improvement Houston would note. One little boy had begun to worry about his neighbor's disorderly yard. "I had a talk with him about how the neighborhood looks," he told the class proudly. "I didn't mention him directly. I just hinted around. But he's kept his yard clean ever since...
...uniforms borrowed from San FranCisco's pro football 4gers, Celeri & Co. posed for photographers at Berkeley's San Pablo Playground, and next day slipped quietly into Cal's huge Memorial Stadium for practice. California Coach Pappy Waldorf wasn't supposed to be helping, but he was-with calisthenics, signal drills and defensive patterns. Said Celeri, who, like LeBaron, was getting a $2,000 guarantee for his labors: "We want to win this one badly . . . Even if the game doesn't actually mean anything, we'll look awful foolish if we lose...
...there found it a spacious, sunlit, flower-hedged cluster of white buildings 27 miles west of Havana. For each inmate there was an airy, pastel-tinted cell, with toilet and hot & cold running water. Dinner was eaten, tearoom fashion, at small, flower-decorated tables. Reclusorio has a nursery and playground for children of prisoners, and a basketball court. For trusties, there is even a beauty parlor...
...lacks the political charm of a people's favorite and looks like a cross between a schoolteacher and a gangster. But when Actor Crawford is allowed to swing around in the role, he has some fine scenes-notably, the seedy politico resting off a nightlong drunk in a playground swing, gesturing the children to go off and leave him alone...