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...shadow of a Chicago poolroom hoodlum named Studs Lonigan. But while Farrell undoubtedly put his best talent into the creation of Studs, he has since lavished double the affection, energy and space (present count: 5 vols., 2,529 pp.) on Danny O'Neill, a sensitive, spectacled youngster growing up in the same South Side slums as Studs and James Farrell himself. Earlier novels in the O'Neill saga, e.g., A World I Never Made, My Days of Anger, found young Danny seething with frustrations and a rage to leave the poor, brawl-bitten shanty Irish world...
...late afternoon, a weary little youngster washes down the final hot dog with the last Pepsi-Cola, and hurries off in search of a sign that, as he reassures himself by touching each letter quickly in succession with his forefinger, does indeed spell...
...first three years of his life, Billy was just another blue-eyed, blond youngster playing noisiiy and energetically with the neighbors' kids in Phoenix. Then one day he was hit by a car. Except for a bump on the head, he seemed unhurt and soon he was out playing again. But within a few days, he fell on a playmate's porch and lay there in a convulsive seizure. At the hospital, his parents learned that Billy's brain had been injured when...
...Even if the vaccine tests are successful," said Foundation President Basil O'Connor, "this cannot be known before the end of 1954, so there will be no proven vaccine available next year." Neither will the test vaccine be available for every youngster whose worried parents want it. Test areas will be chosen for scientific reasons, and within those areas the test groups will be picked the same way. Estimated cost of the program: $7,500,000 of $26.5 million which the foundation has earmarked for polio prevention. The rest of the money will go for gamma globulin, which...
Fire & Prayers. No one could have spotted the future fire-eating Secretary in the youngster who shunned fights, delivered lectures on God to his playfellows and ran prayer meetings in the family stable in Steubenville, Ohio. But as a self-made lawyer, Stanton fought cases as he was later to fight the war: to win. When Congressman Dan Sickles killed his wife's lover on a Washington street, Stanton got him acquitted on grounds never before used in a U.S. trial-temporary insanity.-In another case, he brusquely superseded an older lawyer assigned to the case and made...