Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lois Marshall's triumph came with a rush, at the end of a long, uphill pull. When she was 2½, she came down with polio, and the disease left her with a painful limp. Moreover, in her determination to succeed as a singer, she developed as a youngster such a grimly serious manner that her voice teacher, Toronto's Weldon Kilburn, feared she would never charm an audience. But when she gave her first recital at 15, she dropped her determined air and radiated...
...Thorpe was born in a one-room log cabin near Prague, Okla. Jim's Indian mother-his father was half Irish-gave him the Sac and Fox tribal name Wa-Tho-Huck, meaning Bright Path. He was a muscular (5 ft. 11½ in., 185 Ibs.) youngster of 19 when he caught the eye of Football Coach Glenn ("Pop") Warner at the Carlisle (Pa.) Indian school. Pop Warner made Jim Thorpe into a football player, and Jim Thorpe made Pop's Carlisle Indians famous. One of Jim's biggest football thrills: "Running back two straight kickoffs...
...from his drawing, Cartoonist Osborn should have a disposition like a snapping turtle. Osborn surprises people by turning out to be a buoyant, handsome man of 48 with a pretty wife and two happy children. The son of a prosperous Wisconsin lumberman, he liked to draw pictures as a youngster, and wanted desperately to be a serious artist. The trouble was, says Osborn, that "I was quite fat, and I had to be funny all the time to cover up this fat business." The strain worried him into an ulcer at 14, but he eventually discovered...
Oxalic acid, it seems, is bad because it eats up calcium that the youngster needs in order to grow strong bones and teeth. If the child is getting lots of milk and has calcium to burn, the result may not be too bad, provided the oxalic salts do not rotate the bladder or turn into kidney stones. But if children are not getting enough milk and protein, spinach just makes things worse by cutting down the calcium available for the bones. As for the good things that are supposed to be in spinach, such as vitamin C and iron...
...Passage. Polaroid's 3-D bonanza is only a wider opening in a vein it has been profitably mining for years. The phenomenon of polarized light has been a scientific curiosity for at least two centuries, but Land, as a teen-age youngster experimenting in his home laboratory, was the first to find a way to exploit it. He impregnated plastic with tiny needle-like crystals that allowed only light waves vibrating in a single plane to pass through. As a physics student at Harvard, Land perfected the idea, and left before graduation to found his own company...