Word: truants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real name, Harry Lillis Crosby, refused to stick. According to one legend, he so loved a comic strip called the Bingville Bugle that he became Bing himself. He also became a dedicated sportsman (football, baseball, fishing), a good singer in a house full of singing, and a conspicuous truant. He nevertheless went to Gonzaga University in Spokane as a law student. The only useful part of the course, which ended with his first amateur musical success, was public speaking. Said he: "I owe all to elocution...
...possible to accomplish something." In those years the commissioners reduced the patronage-ridden engineering department staff by more than one-third, cut the dog office from three men to one, pushed for the completion of the court house and closed the costly Middlesex County Training School, an institution for truant youths. Ralph says that McLaughlin's budget claims are "at very best a half truth" because the influx of federal revenue sharing funds in recent years has altered the county budget without any help from the commissioners. He resents the spendthrift tag. While county assessments have climbed 97 percent...
Bearded and brash, Hinds, 47, is a comer from way back. At ten he was sent to a reformatory as a truant. A varsity boxer at the University of Wisconsin, he later taught art. In 1958 he began selling life insurance in Madison, Wis.; fifteen years later, he had sold $20 million in term policies-the highest tally in the land...
...Truant. Kallinger took a kind of satisfaction in the notoriety that his family had received. He pinned the newspaper clippings detailing his family's woes to .the wall of his shoe repair shop, and he frequently pointed them out with pride to customers...
...Kallingers' neighbors are divided in their opinion of the family. Some neighbors find the Kallinger boys roughnecks who are too often truant from school, and their father a sour-tempered man given to the brandishing of a gun during neighborhood disputes. Others describe Kallinger as an expert cobbler who is unfailingly polite and neighborly to his customers...