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...explained. "It had to be three syllables, Dead-eye-Dick, or John-Paul-Jones. . . . Steve-Canyon. Not a real name, or one you could turn into a dirty word. But a guy who'd have a girl in every port, and could do all the things that a youngster like Terry couldn't. Why, Terry couldn't even smoke. And with people in the Orient we couldn't use those casual, normal insults that pass between Americans...
...admissions is given to the offspring of veterans, non-veterans' children coming next, and the boys and girls of service personnel still stationed at the University last on the list. So far, faculty children have no chance of getting in, says Miss Lydon, adding that even Dean Buck's youngster is not permitted admittance...
Miss Lydon finds that the children do not offer any exceptional problems. One obstreperous youngster, however, arrived with his father and then decided that he'd rather go with "the old man" to Law School. Father convinced son that it was more fun at the nursery. Other University children have insisted on following their fathers' example of bringing books to school. Reading however, is not a part of the nursery's curriculum...
Odell comes by his football skill naturally, having spent almost all of his life in the game. He played high school football in Sioux City as a youngster, and a few years later became an outstanding back at the University of Pittsburgh, at a time when the Panthers had long teeth and sharp claws...
From his appearance one would hardly guess that Edmond Hall has been playing jazz clarinet as long as anyone in the business and can remember when the Methusalah of the trumpet, Bunk Johnson, was still a youngster. As a matter of fact, he says, Bunk wasn't one of the big boys even in the days when he still had his own teeth. Buddy Petit, Freddy Keppard and Joe Oliver were the real trumpet kings...