Word: two-year-old
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Eighteen months ago, little Donald Morton was toddling around his father's farm near Archerwill, Saskatchewan like any other healthy two-year-old. Then he developed a limp. Arthur Morton took his son to the local doctor for treatment, but the limp grew worse. The child's arms and legs lost their chubby firmness. His father saw him "grab at things and miss them by inches. He couldn't handle his toys and he'd run into the furniture and knock things over...
Last week the citizens of Blooming Grove and Texans for miles around turned out to honor 39-year-old Jim Sewell. He came up from Austin with his wife Janet and their two-year-old son Jimmy to give the commencement address at the Consolidated High School. Next day, a big truck trailer was pulled up in front of the First State Bank for a speakers' platform. There were speeches and telegrams predicting that he would one day be governor. Mrs. G. E. Ramsey, who taught him grammar, said: "Jim, I'm wearing red shoes...
...After a fagged and beaten Ike had hit the canvas for the fourth time in Round 14, the fight was stopped. Little Jimmy Carter, who had seemed doomed to the life of a ham-&-egger, went home to his third-floor Harlem walkup to tell his wife and two-year-old son how, in his first fight in the Garden, he had become lightweight champion of the world...
Battlefield, last year's money-winning-est two-year-old, had already been declared out of the Derby. ROUGH 'N TUMBLE, the California champion, was on the shelf with splints. Greentree's well-liked BIG STRETCH had been publicly embarrassed in a Keeneland prep when an upstart named RUHE gave him a three-length beating. Out in Nevada, some legalized handbook players were still contemplating the 30-to-1 odds offered against the chances of BILL BAILEY, a horse that died last month in Hot Springs, Arkansas...
...insisted that the Oregon State Emergency Board was operating unconstitutionally, finally got the state attorney general to agree with him. This session's legislature is now at work on the Statesman's recommended changes. Last winter, when the Oregon house, under pressure from superpatriots, repealed its two-year-old endorsement of World Federalism, Charlie Sprague said it wasn't a matter of World Federalism itself, but "what worries me is this caving in of judgment in the face of propaganda . . . The risk is that of the closed mind, one driven by fear. [In the repeal] fear triumphed...