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...next morning Beth dropped Jesse at the Merrick. L.I. railroad station, returned home to chauffeur the children to a cub-scout jamboree at nearby Mitchell Air Force Base. On her way back, she stopped to pick up one of her students, arrived home in time to answer the phone. It was the hospital: her bed was ready. She proceeded to give the music lesson, sped back to the base, which she had to cover from end to end in the rain before she could locate the children. She took them home, fed and dressed them, packed, loaded them...
...parental press to keep the youngsters busy has created an image of an Organization Child, or Boy in the Grey Flannel Sneakers. The thriving Cub Scout movement is a wondrous machine of 1,822,062 beanie-capped boys who visit fire stations, make kites and tie knots, all en masse, and the Little League has more than a million little sports who are cheered on by an equal number of overexuberant daddies. "Some kids," says Long Island School Psychologist Justin Koss, "need the Little League. But some need to dig in their own backyards, too. The trouble is that plenty...
...celebrity jungle. Born in a Bavarian village, he was a student in Munich when World War II broke out, was wounded on the Russian front, spent two years in a prisoner-of-war camp. In 1949, after a variety of jobs, he won a competition for a cub reporter's opening on Abendzeitung by doing a story about a night in a Munich police station. While the other contestants spent the evening in police stations, Obermaier stayed in his hotel room, wrote the story as he imagined it. Two years later, after a tour of the U.S., he persuaded...
...came Don Sheldon, 37, one of Alaska's great bush pilots. Airlifting rescuers, Sheldon shuttled dozens of men to a base camp at 10,200 ft., where they began their careful climb. When Crews reported that Mrs. Bading's condition was worsening, Sheldon gunned his Piper Super Cub to an uphill landing on a glacier at 14,500 ft., waited as Crews and another member of his party stumbled down to the plane and then whisked the woman to safety. In another small plane, Anchorage Contractor William Stevenson, accompanied by an Army observer, tried to drop radio batteries...
Entering the crowded city room, the first desk a visitor runs into is that of a crew-cut young man in shirtsleeves, who looks like a cub reporter fresh from journalism school. The young man is, in fact, William Pettus Hobby Jr., 28, who last week was named managing editor of the powerful Houston Post, which is owned and run by his parents, Texas' former Governor William P. Hobby, 82, the Post's ailing board chairman, and Oveta Culp Hobby, 55, first U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the Post's president and editor...