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...Marty's father would not work-Mrs. Daniels supported the family as a $46-a-week bookbinding machine operator. But Marty's father liked to drive Marty's jalopy, and if he went out at night and found it short of gas, he would wake the youngster and beat him for not keeping a full tank...
...After a three-year study, Past President Daniel Chadwick of the Arizona Rural School Association was able to shed some light on what sort of youngster wins national spelling bees. Of the champs questioned, 128 came from public schools, 38 from parochial and three from private. Far from being freaks, 128 winners were rated all-round excellent by their schools, and 94 listed some form of sport as their favorite hobby. ¶ Appointment of the week: Franze Edward Lund, 47, president of little (700 students) Alabama College, to succeed the late Gordon Keith Chalmers as 17th president of 133-year...
...pitcher that he was going to start against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Gangling (6 ft. 2 in., 180 Ibs.) Max Von McDaniel, duly warmed up, had little cause to get nervous until the sixth inning, when the bases suddenly got full of scampering Dodgers and none were out. But the youngster forced Old Pro Elmer Valo, 36, to bounce back to the box, calmly threw home to start a run-nipping double play, and then got Outfielder Gino Cimoli to ground out on an inside fast ball to end the inning. When he finished his two-hit victory last week (final...
...town girl; while one yelled obscenities, the rest of the pack twirled waist chains menacingly to discourage interference. Three of Angels Camp's four bars shut down; merchants decided to close early. Then came action. Flashing down the Main Street hill with muffler throbbing, a long-haired youngster wheeled artfully through a knot of idlers, snatched a can of beer on the fly. Hundreds of daredevils kicked their starters, ready to meet his challenge...
When Tom Spies was a rawboned youngster in the cotton, corn and cattle country of northeast Texas' Red River valley, there was enough food (Tom grew to burly quarterback build), but the average farm diet was deadly monotonous. It consisted of the three Ms-meal, meat and molasses, the meal being corn meal and the meat fat back or side meat. A related fact-though no one at the time suspected the connection-was that every year the South had 400,000 new cases of pellagra (Italian for rough skin). The victims' feet and hands (sometimes neck...