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Hail the conquering hero! What's a little fine? Next year Colonel Kilian Will be wearing stars that shine...
...ladder of love. He got his first job in show business-as a chorus boy-through a mademoiselle who was smitten with his charms when she saw him on a train. Then Mistinguett, who at 70-odd still boasts "la plus belle jambe de France," took a shine to him, made him her leading man. In the U.S., his press-agents call him "the French Frank Sinatra," adding archly, "who appeals to the nylon-soxers...
...wall to break a tie, and beat Los Angeles in the fourth game. But Dick was only 16, and by baseball rules the scouts couldn't even talk to him until he was 17 and no longer eligible to play Legion ball. Another whose name may some day shine in big league lights, Jack Carmichael, was a lanky righthander from Los Angeles with a burning fast ball. He fanned twelve New Orleans players, allowed but two hits, scored a 6-0 shutout. The winning team: New Orleans, victor over Trenton in the finals...
...subway, Vag took a last look at all the shops, the shoe-shine boys, and the Yard buildings. He pictured himself coming back here, in a few years perhaps. Growing old while this place never changed. He pictured himself slightly paunchy, standing around the punchbowl at a reunion in fifteen years. Finally, Vag broke into Harvard Square and darted across to the kiosk. He noticed the new sign, "Subway to All Points." Well, that's where he was going...
...heavily Democratic Los Angeles County. Yeasty young party members are flocking to his campaign-although he is not running for any office. GOPoliticians are cagily watching its progress and wondering if he will let them climb aboard his band wagon. The state's Republican brass is beginning to shine up to him. Bald Mr. Thomas is boldly wooing and winning Republicans to his side with such unprofessional talk...