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From the time Mohammed was a toddler, the old Shah paraded him about in gold-incrusted uniforms complete with shako, preaching dreams of dynasty and a rejuvenated Iran. "What is the use of leading a life of shame?" Shah Mohammed says today, recalling his father's struggles. "Our army was composed of a number of woodcutters and egg sellers. Civil servants' salaries were paid in bricks instead of money. Whenever the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wanted to give a banquet, it had to send someone to the bazaar to borrow 100 tomans...
...because his boyish good looks promised television a new generation's outlook. True to the promise, handsome Frank Church, the Senate's youngest member, keynoted a change in Democratic policy-of a sort. Instead of the economic gloom that had sustained his elders since he was a toddler, he promised global doom; instead of the old "Don't-Let-'em-Take-It-Away" theme of 1952, he urged "Don't-Let-'em-Spend-It-That-Way" for the prosperous 1960s...
...With such opposition, Arnold Palmer has need for every skill picked up in a lifetime of golf. He was raised, quite literally, on a golf course. His father, Milfred Jerome ("Deacon") Palmer, was greenskeeper and teaching pro at the club in Latrobe, 30 miles east of Pittsburgh. As a toddler, Arnie rode be tween his father's legs on the tractor-mower, romped in the rough, built castles in the sand traps. He was just seven when he talked his six-year-old sister Lois Jean into lugging around his heavy golf bag, went out one morning and broke...
Paved Playing Field. For the fun of it is the only way Cleveland's Rocky Colavito has ever played baseball since he discovered the game existed as a toddler back home in The Bronx. Rocky was the youngest of five children born to Rocco Colavito, a sturdy, hard-working iceman, and Angelina Spodafino. Rocco and Angelina came separately to the U.S. in the early '20s from Bari, Italy, met and married in New York City. Rocky's boyhood heroes were his big brothers, Dominick and Vito, who taught him to throw and hit on the paved playing...
...tent theaters. Few of the big-top producers will do better than a sometime carnival fire-eater named St. John (rhymes with Injun) Terrell, 42, who celebrates Christmas by donning colonial garb and boating the Delaware in memory of George Washington's 1776 Trenton victory. A mere Mike Toddler among impresarios when he first hoisted his Lambertville tent in 1949, Terrell now owns or has a hand in four more (at Brandywine, Pa., Neptune, N.J., Rosecroft, Md., Rye, N.Y.), and clearly ranks as a Belasco of Straw...