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...series. But Board Member Francis Adams, former New York City police commissioner, was fighting mad, and smooth-talking Baptist Pastor Gardner Taylor, the board's only Negro member, smelled a race issue in Allen's statement that a 15-year-old John Marshall girl often played truant, spent her days as a Harlem prostitute. The board voted to investigate the affair, including, as Adams said pointedly, "the manner in which Allen got into the school -whether it involved a misstatement under oath." (Allen admitted in his series that he used a false employment record...
...street all the time. We used to have to drag her back into the house. When other girls were putting on lipstick, she was playing stickball. When she got a whipping, she never cried. She just stood there and took it." At P.S. 136, Althea was a chronic truant; she played hooky and played Softball with the boys in Central Park. She also played forward on a basketball team called "The Mysterious Five," which practiced at the 134th Street Boys Club and scheduled as many as four games a week with local industrial clubs. "I just wanted to play, play...
...weeks a pseudo soldier in a pseudo army in a pseudo fight. He and his fellow soldiers had a shrugging attitude of callow "realism," which is "a polite translation of the word cowardice." He describes how after the German breakthrough he and five buddies wandered around Brittany like truant schoolboys, cadging six meals a day from the peasants, who treated them as heroes. Only one farmer told them off: "Get out! If you had fought, you'd be fed now instead of having...
...German slang for hangover) by a Journal editor, became a classic over Dirks's protests. "People will get sick of this stuff," he insisted. But the kids caught on, soon gathered the supporting cast that still appears in both strips: long-suffering Mama; Der Inspector, a white-bearded truant officer; and Der Captain, a seafaring disciplinarian ("Spare der rod und spoil der brat"), who is Mama's star boarder and the pranksters' perennial victim...
Smoldering Cigars. Floyd Patterson, a cool ("He's like ice in a glass," said a trainer), lithe and rope-muscled Negro, was potentially the youngest champion (as Moore was undoubtedly the oldest). Only a few years before, Patterson had been an underprivileged Brooklyn kid, a tough and aimless truant who ran with the back-street gangs and snarled himself into a school for wayward boys. He came out of a lower East Side gymnasium to win the 1952 Olympic middleweight championship at 17, went on through a passel of rugged amateur scraps and only one defeat in 31 professional...