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...august U.S. Lawn Tennis Association remembered Edward John ("Budge")* Patty as an up & coming youngster in 1941 and '42, when he won the U.S. junior tennis title. But since then he had become rather a nebulous character who seemed to pop up in a lot of European tournaments, never showed up much at home. After his discharge from the U.S. Army in 1945, the big Californian had settled down to enjoy life on the Continent. Last year the U.S.L.T.A. left him unranked because of "insufficient data." By last week, however, Budge Patty had given the U.S.L.T.A. enough data...
...spite of a lightning flash that skittered down some loose wires and across his basement workroom, freckled, 13-year-old Dick Jorgensen of Chevy Chase, Md. managed to put together a workable TV set one afternoon last week. He wasn't the first electronics-minded youngster to do it, but Dick gave the stunt a new wrinkle: he assembled his set entirely from spare parts scrounged out of refuse barrels behind TV repair shops. This week Dick was on the prowl again. "I'm building an oscilloscope,"* he explained, "and I still need a few parts...
...amazing physical performance for a man of 66, and he seemed to enjoy every minute of it as heartily as a youngster at his first picnic...
...Goodbye to the Blue Sky." Hundreds of the youngsters announced that they did not want to go back to the Eastern zone, jammed into refugee registration centers and hastily set up camps. Said one youngster, who had been caught by the Red police distributing Western propaganda leaflets but had managed to escape: "If I go back, it means goodbye to the blue sky. They'll throw me in jail for years. I couldn't stand that. What now? I'll find a way to live in Berlin...
...Boston, a youngster sadly intoned...