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...with a few softening touches. The Justices upheld a three-man federal court in the case of Russell Baker of Gibsonville, N.C. Two years ago, as a sixth-grader, he was paddled with a wooden drawer divider for playing with a ball in a proscribed part of the schoolyard. His mother went to court to challenge the North Carolina law that permits teachers to inflict corporal punishment of a "reasonable" nature...
...During a schoolyard fight in San Rafael, Calif., in 1970, Kelly Niles, 11, was hit on the right side of his head and taken by his father to the emergency room of San Francisco's Mt. Zion Hospital. Though no evidence of a skull fracture was found on X rays, Kelly was perspiring heavily, and he was pale and groggy. Still, a staff pediatrician sent him home. Later that evening, Kelly's father grew concerned and returned him to the hospital. This time doctors decided to operate and removed a large blood clot pressing on Kelly...
Brooks' comedy career began on the schoolyard circuit-a bright, bookish, undersized Brooklyn kid who learned fast that he could keep bigger boys at bay by making them laugh. In his early teens he was touring Catskills resorts as a stand-up comic and drummer. At 30 he was making $2,500 a week writing Your Show of Shows with his old Catskills pal Comedian Sid Caesar...
...Florida lawyer blocks the forward progress of justice-and of the plot. He invades the miscreant's country estate, eases him from the middle of a disgraceful orgy, binds him and drops him live into a freshly dug backwoods grave-a marvel of vengeful fantasy. Lawyers are the schoolyard bullies of modern society, against whom no ordinary child dares battle, and here is one of them with fear in his heart and swamp water in his ears, lying at the bottom of a mucky hole and spilling out his guilt to McGee...
...mother, "I hardly saw Annemie during the day. She even skipped breakfast to make a few runs before school began." She paid at best only minimal attention to her studies during her nine years of schooling, much preferring to test, and often beat the boys in climbing, skiing, even schoolyard brawling...