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...Caroline, 2^, stayed near home, swam and sunned themselves. She got her first real news of Jack's progress when an excited painter rushed in to tell her that Jack had won Pennsylvania's big block of votes in caucus...
Billy's methods made the conventional odd jobs of Horatio Alger heroes seem sissified. He hung around barrooms waiting for drunks to come out fighting and perhaps lose some money for him to pick up; he parched stolen corn, swam to the Ohio shore and pushed back watermelons, set trotlines for catfish and trapped muskrats for the local doctor, who was an abortionist and fur dealer on the side. For a while he had as partner a deaf ex-moonshiner who had done a stretch in the pen, and from him he got a recipe for making corn likker...
...year-old Los Altos, Calif. high school junior with a skintight crewcut and an adolescent's gangling frame of 5 ft. 11 in., 147 Ibs., flashed through the 100-meter free style in 55.7 sec. to better by .1 sec. the fastest time any American ever swam the distance...
...Everyone,"' says Author Jehnson of Kelly's world, "was well fed and happy. Old people were dignified and respected. Women were courted with grace and courtesy. Men dealt with each other on equal terms, and small white and Negro boys swam together in the streams in naked freedom." It was a rural America that had largely disappeared more than half a century before-a world washed clean of all imperfection by the loving memory of an engaging...
...greatest beasts. He always refused to carry a weapon against them. "If I did," he said, "even not to use it, the charm wou'd vanish, for I would have the overwhelming conviction of having committed a betrayal of the animals' trust." He bathed with hippos, swam with a pet crocodile. Once he came upon a lion about to give the coup de grace to an antelope, spoke sharply and stared the lion back into the bush...