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Every evening, as darkness falls in Louisville, a big beer sign on top of a building at Fifth and Walnut Streets begins flashing a bright neon-lighted toast: "HERE'S GOOD LUCK TO YOU." One rainy night last week, its intermittent flash disclosed an odd, yet strangely familiar spectacle. A dark-haired youth was edging his way up a fire-escape ladder high on the 19-story Kentucky Hotel. The climber reached the top, took a quick step and balanced erect on a narrow ledge at the roof level-just as a 19-year-old soldier who called himself...
Stargel's mother and brother stepped in at this point to help him make up his mind. They persuaded the husky youth that football was more in his line than pawn shopping, and would, in the long run, do him more good. He decided to try for the Walnut Hills high school varsity, and made it with ease. For three years, he divided his time between tackle, end, fullback and tailback. The concluded his scholastic football career in the annual North-South all-star high school football game...
Stargel's persuasive brother, Willard, a pretty fair football player, himself, once again shares top honors for influencing Bob this time in bringing him to Harvard. Willard, after a fine career at end for Walnut Hills, decided to go to the local college, the University of Cincinnati. He made the U. of C. team easily, but rode the bench several times a season when the Bearcats would play Southern schools. Because Southern schools insisted that he could not play, and Cincinnati acquiesced. Willard often wondered whether he had made the right college choice...
Raymond's all-the-news formula worked. By 1865, the Times's circulation went up to 75,000; in income, it was second only to the Herald. Raymond also prospered; he dined in the walnut-paneled Union Club. Politically, he was neither as "infernally Tory" as Greeley (now his archfoe) claimed, nor the "doughty little bluestocking" the Herald called him. He steered a middle course, insisted that both radicalism and conservatism were necessary for balance...
...mobilizers it expected to descend on the nation's capital. Last week, having just about tripled its annual spending on such things (to about $2,000,000), GSA sheepishly admitted that it had overbought a bit: its warehouses are full of brand-new furniture. It has 2,000 walnut desks stacked high in an old mill and several acres of filing cabinets gathering dust in three cow barns, an abandoned slaughterhouse and a mental hospital that happens to have some extra space. Also on hand, ready for the call: 10,000 pink & blue dustcloths, 818 cans of salted...