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...glad to have his old friend as a partner on such a tough police case. Kirkes, a handsome, strapping fellow, knew everybody in Carpinteria, where his father had been pastor of the Community Church. Patrolman Kirkes was himself a good churchman, the father of a six-year-old youngster, a helper in Boy Scout activities, and member of the Lions Club. He was pretty bright, too: a Vanderbilt University graduate (letterman in football and basketball), he had been top man in his examination for the California state highway patrol...
Though most goalies on their off nights look as though they could no more stop a pumpkin than a puck, Goalie Sawchuk, a steel-nerved youngster of Ukrainian descent, never seems to get rattled. Says admiring Detroit General Manager Jack Adams: "In all the years we have watched Terry he's never had a bad game. He is always alert and reacting to every player's maneuverings from the minute that man gets the puck...
Haiker had asked each youngster to write down the names of the two classmates he liked most and the two he liked least. After a fortnight's interval, he asked them to name the two classmates they considered handsomest, the two they considered ugliest. With few exceptions, Haiker found, the pattern was the same: the handsome boys were also the most popular. No one liked the ugly ducklings. "I just can't stand him!" came the refrain. Just why looks should be so important to children, Teacher Haiker did not pretend to know. But the fact remained that...
Like his friend and fellow fake-hunter, Magician Harry Houdini, Rinn spent a long time looking for evidence of psychic power he could believe in. As a youngster, he was bowled over when a medium ordered him to place the spout of a kettle to his ear and thus receive the words of a "spirit voice." Only after he himself became a magician did Rinn realize that he had been duped (out of $5) by a double-bottomed kettle equipped like a telephone receiver and in contact with a "spirit" hidden behind a panel...
...appeared weary before her Baltimore concert, said Coloratura Soprano Lily Rons, blame it on a youngster in the adjoining hotel room. "I, who need eight and nine hours of rest. What do I get? A crying baby and two hours of sleep...