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Brother C. (for Cash, he likes to say) Thomas Patten had little contact with religion as a youngster in Tennessee. "My Daddy was baptized a Baptist in a mountain stream," he explains, "but a crawfish bit him on his big toe and he never went back." Tom got to be a carouser, "drank like a fish," even got himself a suspended two-year prison sentence for driving a stolen car across a state line. But he saw the light after he met Evangelist Bebe Harrison, "the only woman I ever saw that I couldn't get fresh with...
...Cambridge has gone the same way. East Cambridge will see no more the kindly old neighborhood cop. No longer will the local patrolman help prevent crime by boosting some wayward youngster along the straight and narrow path. It is pretty difficult to boost someone from a moving car without knocking him down...
...took a third in the Los Angeles Open, won the Rio Grande Valley Open and was up in the money at Long Beach, Phoenix and Tucson. But to pros like Kansas' Dick Metz (who thinks Burke will win the National Open) all this was less impressive than the youngster's background...
What can a parent do about all this? Lynd, himself a graduate of California's public schools, has only one pessimistic suggestion: "Mortgage your house and put your youngster in one of the good private schools, where the best teaching today is being done by high-quality liberal arts graduates for whom the professors of education are only an inspiration for humor in the Masters' Common Room...
Roving Tackle. Despite illness and poverty, the boy developed into a big, cold-eyed, hard-fisted youngster who burned with a desire to make the world notice Glenn McCarthy. In Houston's San Jacinto High School he began to succeed-he often came to school with a patch on his pants but he was a football hero and a successful fighter at Saturday-night dances. Girls were enthralled...