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Frail, flame-haired Fabio Signorini, 10, was the smartest boy in his class-and the only one unable to bring a postcard to school for the geography project. With tears of shame in his eyes, Fabio explained matters to his teacher. Neither his mother nor his grandparents can read or write. His father was captured by the Russians on the Don nine years before, and, like 60,000 other Italian soldiers, has not been heard of since. None of the other ten relatives who share the poverty-ridden farmhouse in Sant' Alessandro had ever sent or received a postcard...
...pink-cheeked cadets, aged 9 to 13, of the Royal Marine Volunteer Corps were determined to look their smartest on the march to the Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, Kent, one evening last week. Proud members of an unofficial outfit sponsored by officers of the Royal Marine Forces, the youngsters were on their way to watch a boxing tournament in the camp of their Royal Navy counterparts. Marching crisply, they swung in a column three abreast along the narrow (27 ft.) tunnel of Dock Road...
While working as a longshoreman he earned his first degree--at a school for masseurs--and was practicing both trades when the Germans invaded Belgium in 1940. "It was then that I made the smartest move of my life," Wolpe recalls. "I had read Mein Kampf and knew I didn't stand a chance of escaping, so I volunteered for a German labor battalion. They never suspected that...
...Korean woman's costume, including an infant slung on her back (see cut). Garbled Penny: "I've always believed that when in Rome you should visit La Scala." She also took a jet plane ride arranged by U.S.A.F. Colonel H. A. Schmid, who, gurgled Penny, was "the smartest and the best-looking and the youngest colonel I've ever...
...Just Turn on the Radio." Old Barnstormer Joe Silverthorne, now 40, knows all the tricks; he learned them from one of the smartest air operators ever to hit Central America. Back in 1934, after a hitch in the U.S. Navy, Joe Silverthorne became a crew chief for New Zealand-born Lowell Yerex's TACA airline. Brassy and hardfisted, he soon caught the eye of Yerex, who made him his personal bodyguard and general handyman...