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Boot Polish. Two quicksilver Indian kids named Baby Naaz and Rattan Kumar, as slum orphans in Bombay, pour out such a torrent of acting virtuosity that a slender fable becomes touched with the glow of a minor masterpiece (TIME, Sept...
...lasting war of the bridge experts. Contract made the expert indispensable for the run-of-living-room players: arriving at game and slam contracts with even reasonable safety required standardized communication between partners. In the scramble of the experts to cash in, the man who emerged on top was slender...
Boot Polish. Two quicksilver Indian kids named Baby Naaz and Rattan Kumar, as slum orphans in Bombay, pour out such a torrent of acting virtuosity that a slender fable becomes touched with the glow of a minor masterpiece (TIME, Sept...
...Behind his bank teller's cage one frozen night in White Horse, he knocked out a raw, rollicking ballad called The Shooting of Dan McGrew, modestly tucked it away in his shirt drawer, months later, in 1907, sent it to a Toronto publisher of church hymnals with a slender assortment of other sourdough rhymes. The story goes that the typesetters swung into a dance as they locked it in the forms...
...Fired." Unable to compete physically with the other brothers Eisenhower, young Milton went after recognition through mental achievement. To his surprise and surpassing pleasure, Milton found himself rising high in the esteem of brother Dwight, who rewarded Milton's scholastic accomplishments with prizes from his own slender wages at the Belle Spring Creamery. "I was tremendously impressed that Dwight wanted me to succeed," says Milton today. An Abilene schoolteacher, Annie Hopkins, was installed in the household to supervise the homework of both Milton and Earl, did such an expert job on Milton that his Latin teacher accused...