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...admired and bought a hand-worked copper cigaret case. He couldn't buy any more because its maker, a silversmith, really felt it beneath him to work in copper. There Mr. Marcus planted a seed for the future: to glamorize copper work, he offered a prize to the schoolboy who. could make the best handmade copper gadget...
...They built a dam across the Santee. From the Santee they dug a canal, built another dam, a lock and a powerhouse, diverting some of he Santee's impounded waters into the Caller Cooper River, which empties into the sea at Charleston. (The Cooper, as every Charleston schoolboy knows, "joins the Ashley River at Charleston to form the Atlantic Ocean...
...charter an airliner to take him back to camp on time, announced when he arrived in Seattle that he was engaged to cinemambitious blue-blood Cobina Wright Jr. Cobina and mother denied it. Said Beaudette: "I think I'll just forget the whole thing." .. Bryan Untiedt, schoolboy hero feted in 1931 for his rescue of 15 children from a blizzard-bound bus, married Marjorie Bowman, 22, of Denver. Untiedt, now 23, is a Denver carpenter. ...Baron Franz von Werra, Nazi flyer who fled a Canadian prison camp for the U.S. and then skipped the U.S. for Germany, married...
...American ear, organized cheering sounds right at football games, wrong at baseball games. Nevertheless, this week will see the first organized cheering section in a major-league ball park: at a Dodger-Giant game at Ebbets Field, 6,000 members of Brooklyn's Knothole Gang (schoolboy fans) will whoop it up for the dear old Dodgers. Cheerleaders: the "Reg'lar Fellers" kids (Puddin'head, Wash Jones, Jimmy Dugan and his dopey cousin Dinky), comic-strip radio characters...
Tale of a Japanese Schoolboy. Yosuke Matsuoka was born in March 1880, at the little port of Morotsumi in Yamaguchi Prefecture on the lovely island-flecked Inland Sea some 500 miles west of Tokyo...