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Franklin Park is not exactly the easiest place to get to from Cambridge. But it is there that the Crimson cross-country team practices and runs its home meets. Nestled in Boston's scenic South End, a hotbed of schoolboy football, Franklin Park is a good healthy walk from the nearest subway station, and an exciting drive by car from Harvard Square...
...brown paper bag, he took his first train ride and joined the Indianapolis Clowns, a barnstorming black team. He played shortstop for $200 a month. Looking Aaron over one month later, Braves Scout Dewey Griggs was startled to find that he was batting cross-handed, a handicap that every schoolboy learns to avoid. The scout advised Aaron to switch to the standard grip, then watched as Henry collected seven hits, including two home runs, in nine times...
...When I first started, I used to sell (my songs) outright, for ten or fifteen dollars, anything I could get," he recalls. His songs were not copyrighted, and and he did not receive any royalties. For a time, he and his partner, Eddie Cooper, made nickels and dimes as schoolboy pornographers. Dixon wrote the dirty verses and Cooper drew the cartoons...
...with many foreign visitors, they encountered serious communication problems. "In Europe, a U.S. tourist can always find someone who speaks English at the hotel or at the airport," said Lafont, who is limited to schoolboy English himself. "Here, nobody speaks French. We got along as best we could. In New York we couldn't understand anybody. They must speak some special slang...
...Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary, U.S.N., is an absolute legend that goes like this: on April 6, 1909, after 23 years, eight attempts and Arctic hardships that included the loss of his toes, Peary became the first man to stand at the North Pole. It is a nearly perfect schoolboy legend of endurance and courage rewarded with honor and wealth. There is even a touch of Melville in Peary's faithful black polar companion, Matthew Henson, who wound up with a $900-a-year job as a messenger at the U.S. Customs House...