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...failed to find one that suited him. Disappointed, he served a brief stint on the family newspaper, then went to Manhattan to try his hand at advertising. Another youngster named William Benton, a year older but four years richer in experience, hired him to write trade-paper ads for the old Batten agency at $25 a week...
...Mouledous grand slam was no surprise to the experts. Dick, a confident but not cocky youngster, began to look good last summer when he ripped through boys' tournaments in straight sets, won the National Outdoor Boys' Singles championship without trouble. Besides a powerful forehand, he has an exceptional change of pace, a tantalizing drop shot. A big fellow for his age, Dick Mouledous (whose father runs a butcher shop) is over 6 ft., weighs...
...When a youngster starts out as a copilot, his associates suggest that he will doubtless want to join the union. If the newcomer agrees and is able, he is carefully nursed along by his pilot, becomes a full-fledged captain in due course. If he disagrees, he may live to be the world's oldest copilot...
...after day, why shouldn't the grown man eventually be able to lift the full grown cow? For the Borden Co.'s farm-flavored radio show, County Fair, the ancient gag looked good as new. Last week, Borden's Milo, a husky, hay-haired youngster named Allen ("Buck") La Fever, had hoisted his Jersey calf, Phoebe, on 61 consecutive days and was still going strong...
Same day, another youngster in the fast-growing family of Field enterprises had a birthday. For the four-year-old Chicago Sun, deep in the red, it was a red-letter day that saw its first A.P. copy (TIME, Dec. 10) roll out of clacking teletype printers. He was still being politely charitable about his rival, the Chicago Tribune's autocratic Robert Rutherford McCormick. Field's comment: "He runs a very efficient paper...