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...three close friends, who are not necessarily friends with each other. Cliques are not firm or obvious. Similarly, these girls often date many boys without being serious about any. Sometimes, however, a chocolate girl has few or no friendships, and she spends most of her waking life on schoolwork...
...Devil Himself. The son of a railway stationmaster, Schiele lived most of his childhood in the drowsy Danubian town of Tulln, 14 miles northwest of Vienna. He was an emotional, lonely boy who spent so much time turning out drawings that he did scarcely any schoolwork. When he was 15, his parents finally allowed him to attend classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Even there he did not last for long. Cried one professor after a few months of Student Schiele's tantrums and rebellion: "The devil himself must have defecated you into my classroom...
...first Chessman made up for poverty and physical shortcomings by excelling in schoolwork. A schoolmate remembers him as "very argumentative in class. He always talked way over people's heads, and he had a superior attitude toward other students. A lot of them disliked him. Carol never seemed to make friends with nice boys, and he finally took up with some bad ones...
...part of the skin and of the union of bony scutes." Tommy is a 7½-year-old boy who lives on a farm near Hastings, Minn. He wrote his treatise, which he assembled from reference books, in legible longhand and in ink. The exercise was part of his schoolwork, but such assignments are hardly the usual fare for Minnesota second-graders. Neither are some of the topics the bright, assertive boy tackles with no apparent harm-parts of speech and sentence structure, German, geography, fractions, mythology and poetry (Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg) and chess...
...charmingly seen through a child's eyes-a beautiful marriage. But daddy was hooked by the diamond fever, and no amount of hard work helped because he never found enough diamonds. Helena spent long hours at housework when she should have been doing her schoolwork, and mamma tried all sorts of ways of making money (selling pastries, vegetables, etc.), always with disastrous luck...