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...Manhattan, "Red Cap" porters in the Pennsylvania station promised each to give a dollar a year to found a scholarship for that porter's son who has the highest mark in English, mathematics, history and chemistry. He must be "an obedient boy to his parents and teachers"; he must "desire to make his mark in the world"; he must be "sound in body and mind." The first winner of the scholarship, Marcus Carpenter, 19, is now a freshman at Howard University, Washington...
...refrigerator car ride four characters, the weeds of humanity's garden, playing poker--an unctuous card-sharping deacon, an Italian escaped convict, a thug, and a young hobo, who has had a conventional background. As the freight pulls out of a middle Western town, a girl disguised as a boy hops it. The crowd, not deceived, cuts the deck for her. The deacon wins. Smash goes the lantern. A shot, and a couple leap from...
...Duilio, Italians considered it a good omen that Count Volpi is, strangely enough, "a self-made business man." His title was conferred upon him by King Vittorio Emanuele as a reward for his highly successful governorship of Misurata in Italian Tripoli. And it is well known that as a boy he was obliged to earn his own living as the result of financial reverses which had befallen his family...
...apparently going to publish when the course is over, and the one on my left--well, he must have been a spy once, cryptograms or something. Of course I might read the book, though it looks pretty heavy--I actually bought one--fine print too. Wish the old boy were more social, might take him around or something. I must pass that hour. They will educate one at all costs. Oh, probably the "Wid" will have something on it. And I think Charlie took it last year. I'm sure he did. He must have some notes...
...Tabor" to any St. Ber. nard boy and he will answer mechanically, "Mr. Jenkins." They were joint headmasters: John Jenkins, a brusque punctilious Englishman with a voice that barks, an eye that explodes, and a mustache that bristles in a futile attempt to conceal the deep and challenging kindness he feels for all lads under 16; Mr. Tabor, a man who looked as if he might have sat as a model, long ago, for Mr. Punch- a very tall, sanguine, athletic Mr. Punch, with a charm that made mothers ask him out to dinner and fathers...