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...story of Frank White is one that has impressed Noonan, who remembers treating him for a back injury sustained as a schoolboy. Doctors had predicted that it would prevent White from further contact sports, but his determination to play football and the expert care of Noonan more than upset predictions...
Artzybasheff, who was born in Kharkov (1899), the son of a well-to-do Russian author, began to doodle with grotesque and weird creatures as a schoolboy. He had. just entered law school-to round out his education-when the Communist revolution caught up with him. Escaping to a Black Sea port, he signed on a ship that he thought was bound for Ceylon, but ended up in New York with 14? worth of Turkish money in his pocket, spent his 20th birthday on Ellis Island...
Trying to rally enthusiasm for the Suez settlement, Egypt's young Strongman Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser faced a quarter million of his people one night last week in Alexandria's Manshiya Square. On that very spot, he said dramatically, as a schoolboy in 1930 he took part in his first anti-British demonstration, first saw authorities shoot down fellow Egyptians. "But I am alive," he cried, "participating in the freeing of my country...
...Black Shield of Falworth (Universal-International). After sitting through three full-color CinemaScope treatments of the Middle Ages (Knights of the Round Table, Prince Valiant, King Richard and the Crusaders) in the last six months, one schoolboy complained that he was "beginning to feel middle-aged." A weary wag some years his senior replied by recommending The Black Shield of Falworth as distinctly "the lesser of medievals." Actually, The Black Shield is better than that. In sheer athletic thwack-in the vim with which buffets are fetched and weasands slit-it is one of the jaw-jarringest things...
Filling out the Crimson's backfield will be fullback Tom Fritz, with Tom Zierk, a former schoolboy track star, at wingback. The quarterback position will alternate between Cliff Erickson and Ashton Hallett...