Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 40 years ago a Manhattan youngster named Walter Merrill Hall used to run from his front yard to the Hamilton Grange Tennis Club next door and peep through the fence at his father playing there. At 13 he learned to play. At 15, Walter Merrill Hall quit school, went to work as a Wall Street runner to help support his mother and grandmother. But every morning, every evening he practiced his tennis, developed a powerful forehand drive, a smashing backhand "down the line." At 24, Walter Merrill Hall was national clay court doubles champion. At 30 he came within...
...third prizewinner, Cambridge University's brilliant young Dr. Dirac. Also, long before lightweight protons or "positrons" were experimentally observed by Caltech's Dr. Carl David Anderson (TIME, March 6), Dr. Dirac had declared such particles to be required by mathematical necessity. But this shy, angular youngster with small Wack eyes and small black mustache, already a big frog in the subatomic puddle, made his biggest splash three years ago when he declared the universe was a sea of negative electricity. Thus the nuclear protons of atoms were simply holes in the surrounding electronic field; matter was a honeycomb...
...sent it to Moscow. There it found its way to Soviet School No. 25 and there last week alert New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Ralph W. Barnes found poring over it a sandy-haired twelve-year-old with a great name. The youngster was Vassily ("Vasya") Iosifovich Stalin, in a neat blue double-breasted jacket and a red tie. Close-cropped fair hair, pale face and lively eyes marked Vasya for the son of his late blonde, plump mother rather than of his father, Russia's blue-black-haired Steel...
...from the goal posts). His Brother Bud, 12, is less interested, less proficient. Between halves of last week's game at the Polo Grounds, in which the New York Giants swamped the Philadelphia Eagles 56-to-0, Father & Son Brickley started the schoolboy kicking carnival, saw a youngster named Charles Goodell of New York's Curtis High School qualify for the finals Dec. 3 by booting four out of five over the cross bar. Major college football games last week: Virginia returned from its humiliation (75-to-0) by Ohio State, to rock a strong Columbia team...
...reach the home plate. Goslin singled, Manush was walked, and both men gained bases when Schumacher pitched a wild one. Schulte knocked a hard grounder to third base and Goslin was run down on his way home. Schumacher walked another man, filling the bases again. Then Schumacher, a youngster in his first regular season, showed the same recuperative powers as Hubbell had. He struck out Ossie Bluege...