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Only one man could give the final pat to this neat little colonial comedy, and any schoolboy could guess who he was after three sentences-Rudyard Kipling. This one story, written when Kipling was 44, is the only pure drop of storytelling in the bucket; the literary spigot, which by Kipling's 24th year had already spouted seven fine volumes, began to go rusty when he was still a young man. But one good story by Rudyard Kipling is quite enough to make a book worth having...
...good spanking for Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 17, was recommended by the Sunday Pictorial, a London tabloid, because "her behavior in breaking off engagements has become as silly as a schoolboy smoking cigars." Meanwhile, in Hollywood, beautiful Elizabeth had a date with a new fellow: Home Run Slugger Ralph Kiner of the Pittsburgh Pirates...
...team is not a question mark club. On successive nights it walloped the MIT freshmen, 74 to 40, and Dean Academy, 60 to 35. The Terriers have only one starter over six feet, but three of the first team received "most outstanding schoolboy player" awards in Connecticut, Maine, and New Hampshire...
Henry Browne Wallace got his start in the chicken business when he was a twelve-year-old Des Moines schoolboy On Easter Sunday 1926, his mother gave him a dozen baby chicks from the dime store and he began raising them in his backyard, with some advice from his father, Henry Agard Wallace. No politician then father Henry was spending his time developing his hybrid corn,* forming the Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Co. to sell the seed, and editing Wallaces' Farmer. When the corn became a success (over 99% of Iowa corn springs from some brand of hybrid ternel...
...truth came out with a minor bang: PEER'S NEPHEW AS FACTORY HAND. Proletarian Mr. Green, it seemed, was simply the pseudonym of socialite Mr. Yorke. After writing most of his first "Henry Green" novel, Blindness, while a schoolboy at Eton, Mr. Yorke had gone up to Oxford, where he soon grew plain "bored." So he had roamed up to Birmingham, where a big engineering firm hired him at ?1 a week. "First I was a sort of storekeeper. Then I passed on to be a pattern maker, later I became a molder, and finally...