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...adolescent wonderboy can be klutzy. Taking a driving lesson, Andy hits the brakes of his pickup and drives his foot through the floorboard. He buys a pair of shoes and when he wiggles his toes the seams pop. Daddy Majors clearly has another rival on his hands...
...recent experiences with similar scenes in movies and a sort of savage humor regarding people and events. One of the first things that drew me to him was our common acquaintance with Tony, at a time when Tony was just beginning to assume his I'm-a junior-wonderboy role...
...Thomas as she rushed into a Manhattan hospital where the poet lay stricken with a "massive alcoholic insult to the brain." The answer is no. Twelve years after his death, even people who think poetry is what appears on greeting cards have heard the legend that the wild Welsh wonderboy was the greatest lush, lecher, and lyric poet produced in this century by the English-speaking world...
...Palace. Training his slingshot on the Democratic machine, Wonderboy Sagan at 26 helped elect Independent State Representative Abner Mikva, who was voted "outstanding freshman" of 1957 by the Illinois legislature. Taking on the Chicago Theological Seminary, the Herald last year leaped into the fight that saved Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Robie House from demolition to make way for a dormitory. As circulation hit 8,500-350% more than the old Herald-Publisher Sagan was able to say: "The paper is worth ten times what we paid...
What Roy carried in the bassoon case was Wonderboy, a bat he had whittled for himself from the center of a tree struck by lightning. And when Pop finally gave him his chance, he made beautiful music with it. He belted homers almost without trying, but he was more than just a slugger. It developed that he could throw like DiMaggio and field like Tris Speaker. In short, he was a natural. The whole team caught fire from him; within a few weeks, the Knights were back in the pennant fight...