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...during that campaign that I, as a small boy, approached my father, a very good business man, with the proposition that he should furnish me with a penny to buy some candy. He told me that we were in a political campaign and there was a probability, a possibility at least, that we were going to elect a Democrat for President. Such an action, he said, would undoubtedly be followed by hard times and therefore it was necessary to economize...
...hard to say, but the latest stroke of Police Commissioner Enright's "special flying squads" is either a masterful sort of retaliation or else a most dastardly trick. These special raiding squads are composed exclusively of "young detectives apparently chosen for their ability to look and act the college boy on a lark"; they trickle insidiously into the doomed "chop house", purchase several drinks and then ungratefully arrest the waiters and the proprietor...
...difficult to see how this sort of impersonation will react on the true "college boy" when he sets out on an honest-to-goodness "lark". No one double the ability of the young detectives to impersonate the "college boy" perfectly--so the damage will be irreparable. Walters will hide their faces, and what will be much worse, their stores of liquors, whenever a "college boy" heaves in sight; proprietors will see that he is conducted to the farther-most table in the most dismal corner; and patrons will eye him askance with that contemptuous respect ordinarily reserved for enforcers...
...greater disabilities can be imagined than that of the loss of an arm to a pianist. Yet recent death notices contain the name of an old Hungarian, aged 75, famed as a pianist despite the loss of his right arm. Count Geza Zichy was a boy of 14 when maiming came to him in a hunting accident, yet with extraordinary courage and perseverance he schooled his remaining arm to do the work of two. He achieved such mastery that he gained the admiration of Liszt, who proclaimed him a phenomenon, accepted him as his pupil...
...gifts of Nino Rota Rinaldi, aged eleven, of Milan, who caused a sensation last month at Tourcoing, France, by conducting a performance of an oratorio written by himself. The work, The Childhood of St. John, was produced by a chorus and orchestra of 250 persons. Both the boy's composition and his conducting were pronounced excellent...