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Getty went back to Los Angeles and joined his father in buying and selling leases and drilling wildcat wells. He took up bodybuilding, hired professional wrestlers to tussle with him in his basement gym. By night, he squired a galaxy of bright young girls through the best West Coast nightclubs. In 1923, at 30, he married Jeannette Demont, 18, whom he had met in Los Angeles. Three years later, after the birth of his first son, George Franklin Getty II, they were divorced in Mexico. Next year Paul married Allene Ashby, 17, a Texas rancher's daughter and excellent...
...blew off a fortnight ago when Preston Young, 16, a Negro pupil at Central Senior High, punched Richard Powers, 28, a gym teacher. Outraged Superintendent Hazlett last week prodded the board of education into expelling Young for the rest of the year, asked for the right to expel any disorderly pupil for up to a full semester. Hazlett called for the names of juvenile extortionists and weapon carriers, planned to make their parents "answer to the central office why their child should stay in school...
...Trouble, then clutches the town by the lapels with a rousing Seventy Six Trombones. Later in a gay, public-library ballet, Preston soft-shoes a hard sell of love-making to the librarian. Number after number-street gossipers, the arrival of cornets by Wells Fargo, a Shipoopi in a gym-has its own blared or strutted, puppet-jiggled or cricket-chirped animation. In the title role, a Preston who had never danced or sung during 20 years of show business becomes, at a bound, a brilliant song-and-dance man. His triumph, to be sure, stems from something less than...
...best remembered of the Roosevelt boxing stories center around two matches he had in a lightweight tournament at the Harvard gym in March, 1879. He won his first match, and also won the crowd with one of those chivalrous acts which sporting fans love. When the referee called "Time," Roosevelt immediately dropped his hands, but the other man dealt him a savage blow in the face. The spectators shouted "Foul, foul!" and hissed, but Roosevelt is supposed to have cried out "Hush! He didn't hear...
...gym jiggled with the joy of 1,800 students. Ringleaders wheeled up a great brass bell and banged away with demoniac glee. The whole town (pop. 59,500) welcomed the clangor. The Eagles of Abilene High School were whooping it up for their game with Big Spring, and when Texas high schools play football, their home towns take a holiday...