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...Many [students] have devised ingenious flame throwers, and others carry plastic water pistols loaded with searing or blinding chemical solutions. One resourceful youngster joined the National Guard, lying about his age, for the sole purpose of stealing a submachine...
...away Willie's title of Featherweight (126 Ibs.) Champion of the World three years ago, Sandy Saddler. Last week, as part of his announced program of keeping in trim for another bout with Sandy one of these days, Old Master Pep, 31, stepped into the ring with a youngster named Lulu Perez, 20, who a year ago was just good enough to be a sparring partner for Willie...
What is more surprising is that Marti Stevens ever got to be a professional singer. As a youngster she had a French governess, later had a society debut, and was supposed to settle down into the life of a well-to-do Manhattanite. But Marti was-the eldest daughter of Movie Magnate Nicholas M. Schenck. She never got over the procession of show-business stars who came visiting at the Schenck household when Marti was in pigtails. "I just sat in a corner and watched those wonderful people do their tricks." In her teens, she started to collect Helen Morgan...
...Backus, a spindly-framed youngster, was washed out of the Army Air Corps because he was underweight. Home again to Long Island, Backus got his back up and went to work with bar bells to build muscle and weight. He also began to fool around with the 35-lb. weightthrow, a track & field event normally reserved for bulge-bellied giants-in fact, the weight men are commonly called "whales." At Tufts College, Backus, still slim but taking on weight, became a better-than-average weight-thrower, but he was always in the shadow of his roommate Tom Bane...
...parents what they in turn should tell children who are to be admitted for operations, said the A.M.A. Journal. A simple, forthright explanation to the child-of the operation itself, of the anesthetic, and of what all those white-garbed people are up to-will help to save the youngster from panic...