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...years whooping moppets have whanged rubber and composition automobiles into other toy automobiles, table legs, baseboards. Thought many a fenderdented father: "If our car were only like that!" dismissed the wish as fantastic...
Mana-Zucca was born Mana Zuckerman, in New York City. She was musically prodigious. Her pressagents claim that, on her third birthday, she furiously demolished a toy piano because it had no F sharp and she could not play The Last Rose of Slimmer on it. Mana-Zucca made her debut as a pianist at eight with the New York Symphony under Dr. Walter Damrosch. Year later she published her first composition...
...Ross has rubbed shoulders with many a leper. But lightning, not leprosy, set him off on his mission career. In 1901 a bolt struck a toy telephone he had strung in school, narrowly missed killing a Negro student named Jacob Kenoly. Student Ross never forgot. Later Kenoly founded a mission school in Liberia and was drowned while fishing for his scholars' supper. On the day that Emory Ross got a letter telling him of Kenoly's death and asking him to take his place, he was offered a good job in a bank. For once lightning struck twice...
...moves, the Legion well do its country a service by thinking its problems through to the end and stating its position clearly enough for all to grasp. Its influence is great, but no greater than its responsibility. Let the thousands of delegates shake staid old Boston like a toy rattle, led them tic up traffic in knots the Boy Scouts never heard of, but still the eyes of the nation will watch intently for the outcome of this convention...
...both sentimentalists and experts were disappointed. Not one of the six starters completed the 90 miles. My Sin, Notre Dame and Tinker Toy broke down in the first heat. In the second heat, Notre Dame was unfit to start, Tinker Toy dropped out in the first lap, My Sin in the third. In the last 30 miles, Notre Dame finally got going, roared around at 66 m.p.h.-but it was too late. The cup went to the winner of the first two heats, Sidney Allen's Hotsy Totsy...