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Last spring at the New England A.A.U. meet, he climaxed his schoolboy career by leaping 12 ft., 53/3 in. for a new Exeter Academy vault record. He considers this a bigger thrill than his 12 ft., 6 in. tie for third in the National Junior A.A.U. championships at Randall's island, New York...
Observant and curious, he pasted in a scrapbook every picture postcard that came to the Pyle house. And he had a solid respect for facts. As a schoolboy, assigned to write a composition about a visit to the county courthouse, he reported; "Many interesting statistics were brought out in the examination of the assessment sheets. It was found that Old Dobbin has completely succumbed to the invasion of the automobile. The total value of horses listed in the county is $297,096, while that of automobiles is $398,322. The average horse is worth a fraction less than...
Countess Gisèle de Chambrun, Manhattan socialite wife of a great-great-great-grandson of Lafayette, who "bumped" her car into a schoolboy last December, fracturing his legs, arms and skull, went to court to tell (in French) her version of the accident, got off with two $5 fines for "driving with a defective horn" and "failure to give right...
Taffy-haired, wide-eyed Gunnar Skog (a pseudonym) was a schoolboy of 16 when the Nazis overran Norway four years ago. Like thousands of others among his 2,900,000 countrymen, he went into the underground to fight the German-Quisling tyranny. Recently he escaped to Sweden, then to Britain. Last week, en route through New York to "Little Norway" in Canada, where he expects to become a Royal Air Force navigator, he told this story of life under the Germans...
...ranks of your uniformed covers to let the world have a glimpse of a truly great and timely hero. Such recognition of men of science or art ought to be increased. What they contribute is immeasurable and yet they have all too often remained in oblivion while every schoolboy is taught history in terms of battles and their leaders, regarding their exploits as the ultimate in human achievement. A surer road to peace for the future would be the encouragement of youth's devotion to the more constructive leadership of the healers, the builders and the artists who benefit...