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...full. Pole-vaulters Bill Lawrence and Gene Lockett with match leaps with Bob Richards of Illinois (winner of last year's Millrose vault at 14 feet, and the favorite tonight), Boo Morcom, University of New Hampshire triple-threat field man, and Yalio freshmen Bill Apel, who set a national schoolboy record of 12 feet, six inches at Andover last year...
...every U.S. schoolboy knows, and some of his elders forget, the two-party system is not as old as the Liberty Bell.* But, as every practicing politician knows, no third party has seriously challenged the two major parties since the Civil...
...that time, Thackeray had never quite decided which to be. As a schoolboy, made miserable by a too massive head and painfully nearsighted eyes, he was "licked into indolence, abused into sulkiness, and bullied into despair." He took his revenge on his schoolmasters and schoolmates by drawing cruelly accurate caricatures of them in his schoolbooks. As a young dandy in Paris, he was happiest hobnobbing with Left Bank artists, Bohemians "and fellows of that sort." And these friends could often find him laboriously copying paintings in the Louvre in the hopes of becoming, like them, an artist...
Every airminded schoolboy has wondered why airliners do not refuel from flying tankers. The advantages (longer range, lighter takeoff, bigger payload) are obvious. Today an airliner labors off the ground carrying fuel for the whole flight, though it will not need most of it for the first thousand miles...
Long ago, when he was an unknown schoolboy in Spain, Dali had let his hair grow in order to resemble Raphael's self portrait. Now, his ambition was to "recreate Raphael" in oils. But instead of a Raphaelesque Madonna, Dali had chosen for his "masterpiece" the Greek myth of Leda (whom Zeus seduced, in the guise of a swan). Dali's up-to-the-minute title: Leda Atomica. "Le head," explained Dali in his scrambled English, "ees the most finish. Le figure weel remain très clair. Le rest weel become très nocturne. Weel appear...