Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before Pearl Harbor Jack Singer was a New York Journal-American sportswriter with a talent for making friends and turning out sharp copy. When war came, the slim, good-looking youngster (27) said his job was unimportant, asked for foreign service. Last April he got it. Word of his mishap moved Navy Secretary Knox to say: "I think we all feel a great sense of pride at the long chance men are taking to get the news...
...before the District of Columbia Board of Education last week was a new health course for Washington school boys & girls. Its theme: the evils of the Demon Rum and Nicotine. Calculated to scare a youngster stiff, the course totted up an unusually extensive list of dire results of smoking and drinking-from duodenal ulcer to divorce...
Knox's spiritual pedigree goes back to Teddy ("King Theodore I") Roosevelt, and there it stops. As a chunky, redheaded youngster of 24 he went to Cuba with Roosevelt and the Rough Riders. He tore his pants ignominiously on barbed wire in his first battle, got a bullet through his hat and a lifelong case of hero worship. Like Teddy Roosevelt, he believes in strong talk and the Big Stick. Like Teddy Roosevelt, he believes in the strenuous life; at 68, he adheres to a muscular regimen that would kill many a younger...
...time to watch the plane crash.) Captain Hill was 23, from Hillsdale, NJ. He had been a high-school athlete, had worked as a plumber's helper. Now his picture showed him at a British airport after the battle (see cut), grinning toothily from his cockpit like a youngster tickled about his first solo...
...laughter of children, and their voices speak for the animals. Their genuine laughter was recorded by running off some Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck cartoons at the Disney studio for a group of neighborhood children. Thumper's all-boy voice rates an Academy award. It belongs to a youngster named Peter Behn. His dialogue was recorded early in the five years it took to make the $1,600,000 Bambi. Brought back for retakes several years later, Master Behn scarcely got his lines out before his voice changed...