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...memorialize the birth of their first two children, Stephen and Kathy, now 23 (they have had two more since-Christina, now 19, and Andrew, 17). To their mutual delight, Arthur's history went on to sell more than 60,000 copies, and made Schlesinger, at 28, the Wunderkind of Academe...
FRED: Nope. I was just wondering. Now there was a boy who saw a lot of action. Wilson the Wunderkind, they used to call him sophomore year...
...fitting climax to pro golf's 1964 season, a wacky eleven months in which a reformed rake named Tony Lema won four tournaments in six incredible weeks; in which Old (35) Master Arnold Palmer won his fourth Masters and still lost the money-winning title to burly Wunderkind Nicklaus, 24-by the margin of Brewer's bungled putt and $81.13 in cash...
When Mike was in the fourth grade at Cumberland Road elementary school (he skipped the third), his principal took him to M.S.U. Education Professor Elizabeth M. Drews, who had been rather precocious herself-she entered the University of Oregon at 15. She arranged for the Wunderkind to monitor M.S.U. courses to see if he could take the grind. Professors expected a freak with a photographic memory, discovered instead a welladjusted, serious child who thought logically, had a zest for ideas, and made subtle, discriminating judgments. At home, he was well behaved, with a normal ten-year-old's enthusiasm...
...onetime Wunderkind of McCarthy-committee fame was accused on seven counts of tampering with grand jury witnesses in order to quash a 1959 indictment against four swindlers in the $5,000,000 stock defrauding of United Dye & Chemical Corp. Cohn faced up to 35 years in prison and $26,000 in fines. During 17 days of testimony by 67 witnesses, two of the swindlers swore that they paid $50,000 to duck indictment, and they said that one-third of the money went to Cohn. Nearing the end of its deliberation, the jury reportedly stood eleven to one for convicting...