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...then throws them into the ashcan. More often it deals with infinite justice and consideration. . . . The job of reporter has heartwarming compensations. Sometimes it pays a living wage. Sometimes it is 'a stepping stone toward better things.' Again it is a satisfying career in itself." Many a youngster wondering whether or not to "take up journalism" will read Stanley Walker's book and decide against it. For the ambitious cub who gets on a paper and stays there. Author Walker pictures a city-room postgraduate course: "It is like attending some fabulous university where the humanities...
...away from home one day when the youngster decided to surprise her with a startling new scene for his toy theatre. When she returned, her appreciation of his efforts was so great she spared the rod and did not even scold the boy when she discovered that much of its beauty was due to the fact that he'd cut up her lovely silver evening gown. She is a talented musician and many an hour was spent at the piano playing for him while he worked away at his scenes...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh of Little Falls, Minn, was in Congress. Like many of his colleagues, he sometimes took his 9-year-old son and namesake on the floor of the House. There he usually entrusted the yellow-haired youngster to his favorite doorkeeper, Sam Foley. The War came and Pacifist Representative Lindbergh was retired to private life and Sam Foley returned to his home in New York's Bronx to study...
...week had only one seasoned Internationalist: Winston Guest, who had returned from a honeymoon withhis Woolworth heiress bride, Helena McCann Guest, just in time for the trial matches. Of his three teammates only one played in the East-West series last year. Mike Phipps is a stubby, hard-riding youngster who was a member of Yale's intercollegiate championship team in 1930 and 1932. Like Mills, who also played on the Yale team, he learned polo from the late Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock. Billy Post, whose father is one of the shrewdest judges of ponies in the country, played...
...year-old Georgetown boy named Vernon Vaughan found a frayed magenta 1¢ British Guiana stamp on an old family letter. More as a favor to the youngster than anything else, a collector named Neil R. McKinnon bought it for six shillings. Ten years later McKinnon sold his entire collection to Thomas Ridpath of Liverpool for $600. By that time the 1¢ British Guiana stamp had become known and Count Phillipe la Renotiere von Ferrari, biggest stamp collector in Europe, bought it from Ridpath for $750. In 1922 the Ferrari collection was sold in Paris. The late Arthur M. Hind...