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When Foreign Correspondent Ernie Hill of the Chicago Daily News first received his orders to London, he knew that life was going to be hard for his teen-age stepson Jonathan. After attending U.S. public schools in Oklahoma and New York, and the American School in Tokyo, Jonathan knew no Latin, was way behind in French and algebra. Besides, as his father said, he "declined all invitations to study, and expressed the belief that all teachers were jerks." But by last week, after only two months in Castle Hill College, in a London suburb, Jonathan had changed-so much...
...didn't go to bed. She went back to her hotel room and downed three large glasses of heady red wine. Then she tucked a bottle of alcohol from her spirit stove in her wrap and stole back to the theater. "Just picking up my stepson's things," she told the doorman as she entered. The doorman nodded sleepily, and Eva slipped backstage. She slopped the alcohol over some newspapers and jammed the sodden mess in among the scenery. Then she dropped a match and flounced out. Four hours later, all that was left of "the oldest theater...
...coveted when he passed it on the river. When he made the deal to buy it, he had also seduced the widow who owned it, but if ever a man reformed for good, it was Clyde. He was not only a model husband but a shrewd businessman. Of course, stepson Bushrod turned out to be a caddish sponger, but stepdaughter Gary was the joy of Clyde's heart. Lucy was loving, but she could not give Clyde a child...
...United States, she lived briefly in New Jersey and New York and finally made her home in Fitchburg, Mass. "Always drawn to Boston," Mrs. Schumacher studied piano for two years under Irving Bodky at the Longy School. She learned about Harvard through her stepson, who graduated in 1945, and her son, Class of 1951. In April of last year, she became the record librarian in Harvard's Payne Hall. There, she outlived four or five secretaries and kept the job through Friday of last week. "I was the steady one," she smiles...
...walled city of Cassano, imperfection reaches a fine pitch. Policeman Nespoli's mistress is willing to put the blame on her husband, recently dead, to save her lover's head. Her stepson, Diomede, fearful of losing his inheritance, buys the testimony of a prostitute that his late father spent the murder night with her. The prostitute, egged on by a money-mad sister, sells conflicting testimony to the boy's aunt. A kindly priest is torn by the Prince's demand that he tell the secrets of the confessional. Alone among the townspeople, Sperone, a poor...