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...bacchanal. The funniest and possibly the best story in the book is called The Sorrows of Gin. Amy, a grave sub-teen-ager senses vaguely that the border between heavy social drinking and semi-alcoholism is a thin line over which her parents keep falling. A cook gives the youngster the idea that she would be doing everyone a favor by pouring an occasional bottle of liquor down the drain. This policy reaches a hilarious climax one night when Amy's father barks at a prim, sleep-dazed old lady babysitter: "You must be stinking, Mrs. Henlein . . . You drank...
...Teamster Tycoon Dave Beck, 64, at the $163,000 lair in Seattle built for him by his onetime subjects, Television and New York Post Quizician Mike Wallace found Big Dave waiting out an appeal of his Dec. 14 conviction for larceny. Beck was perplexed about his fat, foolish youngster Dave Jr., 38, convicted of filching $4,650 from a Teamster till. "I think I made some mistakes with young Dave," said Big Dave. "But on the other hand, Dave Beck Jr. has never given me one moment of trouble. Dave Beck Jr. never drank in his life. He never used...
...family of ten devour its food to lose his own appetite. When his father asks Yozo what present he wants from Tokyo, his first impulse is to answer: "Nothing." ("The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference.") To mask his apartness, the youngster feels that he must play the clown, wins from his schoolmates the title of "Harold Lloyd of Northeast Japan...
Elliott took off on the heels of Pace Setters Jerome Walters and Bob Shank-land. He turned the first quarter in 57.5, and the speed that was supposed to steam out Delany threatened to burn up Elliott as well. A Negro youngster collecting hurdles at the trackside watched the runners whisk past and chuckled softly: "Look like those cats think it's the 440. Some-thin's gotta give...
...hurrying north to drill the place full of holes-even though drilling a well there costs almost three times as much as it does at home-and already they have filed for leases on 27 million acres. The timber business racked up $34.3 million in 1957, and that economic youngster is still in short plants. Near Ketchikan, hard by the 16 million-acre Tongass National Forest, is a new, $52½ million pulp mill, and timber folk talk about production of 2 billion board feet a year (v. 33 billion Stateside). Scarcely tapped, too, is Alaska's mineral treasure...