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...Author. California-born (1900), big, blond, blue-eyed, slow-spoken John Ernest Steinbeck has been a farm hand, hod carrier, caretaker, chemist and painter's apprentice, itinerant newspaperman. At Stanford University off & on for six years, he treated it as a sort of public library where he read only what took his fancy: physics, biology, philosophy, history. Indifferent to most fiction, he thinks Thackeray passable, cannot stomach Proust because he "wrote his sickness, and I don't like sick writing." He is dead set against publicity, photographs, speeches, believes "they do you damage." Now living in Los Gatos...
Among these on the field yesterday that displayed some inkling of their ability was the blond 175-pound Charles Burnett, brother of Bob Burnett on the Varsity. A star at St. Mark's last year, Burnett is a good strong kicker, and an accurate passer. Yesterday his punts were consistently well placed and in the vicinity of fifty yards...
...trains and field kitchens dotted among the tents, food gushed like gravel from a stone-crusher. Into the maws of cooking pots went some 1,500 cows, 7,000 pigs, 1,320,000 pounds of potatoes, 176,000 pounds of vegetables to come out stews and soups for the blond, Aryan party members...
...Blond, bulky Elliott Roosevelt has been the most criticized of all Franklin Roosevelt's children. He was the first divorced, first to work for Hearst. He has twice been named in Congressional discussions of aviation scandals. And he has whisked from high-paid job to high-paid job with an ease accountable only by his birth. All of which has earned him a fairly general repute as a "problem child." Certainly Elliott Roosevelt's career is a prime example of a problem which very few men have to face-how to live a normal life when your father...
Today a maturing international competitor at an age when many a great U. S. tennis player has flashed and expired, blond, green-eyed, handsome Gottfried von Cramm stands a husky 6 ft., plays with the sureness and ease of a methodically trained master. One of the seven sons of an Oxford-educated, tennis-loving Junker, he used to roll the courts for his father and brothers on the family estate, Oelber, near the little village of Nettlingen in Hannover. He started to play at the age of 9. Four years later, asked what his plans for the future were...