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Onward with the Arts. Basis of its gaudy plot was that as a beginner in the ring Beau Jack, the illiterate former Augusta Golf Club bootblack, had once sparred with Armstrong. Master Armstrong proposed to give Pupil Jack another boxing lesson. Purred Armstrong: "I can't forget the look of ... adoration in his eyes when he [first] saw me. . . . Just like my little daughter...
...Selected younger candidates will be added to Lampy's large-scale draft-dodging scheme," Eric Larrabee '43, secretary, added. "Partiality to 4-F's is already the guiding rule in choosing members of this immature joke-sheet." Speedball O'Shaughnessy of De Wolfe Street, long the official bootblack for the Ibis-nest adolescents, is being groomed for the presidency, according to a current rumor, but this was vigorously denied by Michael J. Sullivan...
From now on the bootblack, the mortician, the laundry man, the upholsterer, the locksmith, the cleaner and the garageman around the corner-to mention a few-can charge no more for their services than they did last March.- OPA so ordered last week as it slapped ceilings over just about everything the law allows, brought 1,000,000 retail "commodity service" establishments and $5 billion-worth of business under price control...
Great Day. In Minneapolis, a colored bootblack won $3,200 on the races, promptly quit his job, got a shoeshine from a friend, tipped the friend $5, and left town. The friend quit...
...hearings. What leftist Artist Joe Hirsch learned left him stumped. Assigned to decorate the "F. & B." (fornication and bastardy) courtroom, he tore up sketch after sketch, exclaimed: "I can't cover that wall with bastards." Finally he painted panels relating to a child's security: an adopted bootblack; a foster father playing with a child; another helping a child up a ladder; a child trotting to school...