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From his father, fabulous Movie Pioneer Lewis J. ("L. J.") Selznick, who gave him a schoolboy allowance of $1,000 a week, Myron inherited a contempt for small sums of money ("peanuts" to Myron is anything under $5,000 a week), a feud with most of Father Selznick's contemporaries which is supposed to contribute to his professional zeal...
...year ago Bob Feller had the baseball experts stumped. The Iowa schoolboy, who had startled the baseball world in 1936 by striking out 76 men in his first 62 innings of major-league play and was thereupon hailed as the greatest pitching prodigy of the decade, had apparently lost his stuff in his second year as a regular pitcher for the Cleveland Indians...
...That the tractor is as simple as a motorcar, can be maintained by any farm hand, operated by any schoolboy...
Sitting Pretty. Edouard Daladier is what the French call an homme sérieux. A terrific worker, he leads a modest family life, living with his sister (he is a widower) and his two schoolboy sons. Even as Minister of National Defense he used frequently to bicycle to his office (now he sometimes rides a horse in the Bois de Boulogne). He does not even occupy the Premier's office; he prefers to work in the Ministry of War, of which he is still head...
With Les Pitchford of the mound, the 1942 baseball warriors continued their winning ways against Milton Academy, scoring a decisive 8 to 4 triumph yesterday afternoon on the schoolboy diamond. It was the sixteenth win of the current campaign...