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...splinter from a banged croquet mallet pierced Bob Russell's left eye when he was five, and sympathetic blindness struck his right one. He studied from first grade through high school at the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind, learned Braille and how to use a typewriter. He was a mainstay of the Institute wrestling team that consistently licked Columbia's freshmen and jayvees. In 1941 and 1942, Russell won the middleweight championships at the Westchester (N.Y.) County tournaments...
...offers a well-balanced program this weekend: two grade B pictures instead of the usual one piperoo, one stinkcroo. "Tartu," with gigolo Robert Donat and topid Valerie Hobson, is about a British spy doing impossible things in the heart of Nazi-held Czechoslovakia. That sort of thing just doesn't go over without some semblance of reality- and possibility; this was just too fantastic...
Howard had learned how to fight from a top-grade teacher. Originally a Pensacola-trained Navy flyer, he resigned his commission to join the A.V.G. Flying Tigers in China under Major General Claire Chennault. He found good cornpany there, became a squadron leader in six months, shot down six Japs. When his China term was up, he came home rail-thin from dengue fever, took three months' leave, then went back to war, this time with the Army Air Forces...
...premiums ($3 a head for A grade hogs, $2 for B1) guaranteed the farmer a better price-but only if he maintained the quality of his stock. But the subsidy was probably enough to keep hog breeding at its war-swollen level, enable Canada to ship at least 500,000,000 lb. a year to Britain. This is what Britain needs to maintain her 4-oz. weekly bacon ration, what Mackenzie King's Liberal Government needs to quiet Opposition yammering...
...East Side, the youngest of three boys and a girl. His mother was a Neapolitan, and gave Jimmy her nose. His father, Barthelmeo was a French-Italian barber. As his father's helper, Jimmy lathered the faces of many a Tammany politician. He quit school around the seventh grade, ran errands, worked as a glasswasher, photo-engraver, took piano lessons. At 17 Jimmy got his first professional job as a pianist-in Diamond Tony's saloon at "Cooney Island." The skinny, homely piano pounder in a black turtleneck sweater did not drink much (nor does he to this...