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Today, as then, the average San Franciscan's idea of government is the average schoolboy's idea of school: the less of it the better. There was little of it in 1846, when the population was 60, even less four years later, when the population was 15,000-mostly gold miners, ex-convicts, hoodlums and pioneering whores. Then the town was a bedlam where gamblers murdered one another at the drop of a deuce and drunks suffocated to death in the mud of Montgomery Street. Six times in one and a half years the ramshackle town burned down...
From Laborites came a furious outcry against Churchill. "He is the rudest man in the House!" "Why don't you go home?" "Get out!" "Don't behave like a schoolboy!" Raging, Winston Churchill leaned forward, looked straight at Ernie Bevin, and stuck out his tongue...
...flag-draped stage in Atlantic City's Convention Hall, the object of her devotion grinned like a schoolboy, chomped his gum. For redheaded Walter Reuther this was a climax to years of labor wars, to sit-down strikes and bloody noses, to his noisy emergence as a New Day labor-statesman and labor-economist, to the strike at General Motors which had closed that company tight for 113 days. Last week 38-year-old Walter Reuther made his grab for the presidency of the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers. On the floor of the cavernous, smoky hall...
...Crown Prince, wearing a schoolboy blue serge uniform of tunic, short pants, and cap with brass cherry blossom, had just finished his elementary schooling, and celebrated by planting an oak tree on the grounds of the Peers' School. In a school-house built for his benefit next to the Palace grounds-to spare the prince a "dangerous" trip down the street-he had learned his lessons by rote and recited them, singsong fashion, with other young male aristocrats. He had also studied English with a British tutor, long resident in Japan, whose future under an American matriarchy remained...
...fever at Minneapolis, where a record 14,751 jampacked University of Minnesota's fieldhouse, was a measure of the epidemic spread of schoolboy basketball's popularity in virtually every Midwest town. At the final game of Illinois' state tourney, scalpers charged $60 for seats. When Anderson High won the Indiana state championship before a wildly cheering crowd, school closed for three days. Until tiny Danbury (Iowa) High (15 boys) was eliminated last week, R.F.D. Mailman Jack Colbert twice drove 300 miles to Iowa City in his jeep to see Danbury play, sped back...