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...statistics speak ever so much louder than words, even words which have been shoed for five decades. In the record books these statistics may become glorious chronologies of a fertile tradition which somehow pulls a losing team through in the clutch. Mysteriously, they can send out feelers into the schoolboy world, attracting potential stars who want to continue a tradition or learn a sport better than they can anywhere else...
...view of the Yardlings' poor showings against mediocre schoolboy teams this season, Belmont is favored...
...every schoolboy knows, the important raw materials of industry are coal, oil and iron. But, as every businessman knows, the most important raw material of all is the schoolboy who, as a trained college graduate, will run the U.S. industry of the future. Today, U.S. industry is faced with a tight shrinkage of such manpower; it needs not only more but better trained college graduates...
...Magsaysay is my guy!" Filipino voters had shouted during the election campaign. Last week, grinning like a schoolboy and clasping his hands together in the traditional greeting of the prize ring, "the Guy" (as Filipinos have come to call Ramon Magsaysay) stood triumphantly in the broiling sun of Manila's waterfront park waiting to be inaugurated as the third President of the Philippines Republic. A crowd of more than 200,000 greeted him as he drove up with outgoing President Elpidio Quirino in the official black bulletproof Cadillac. The two stepped out and stood in silence as a band...
...been hired to ride herd as technical advisers. The publishers feel they are necessary, and they are probably right. Readers of the old series were content with plenty of action and took Author Appleton's say-so for proof that Tom was an inventive genius. Today's schoolboy savants want the incredible, but they want it backed by a patter of scientific know-how. And of course the dialogue has changed. The Tom of 1910 put real enthusiasm into "Now, dad, you'll see me scooting around the country on a motorcycle." Tom Jr.'s buddy...