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Andy Sheridan was a tough guy from Manhattan's brawling East Side, as tough as his father had been before him. When Andy was eight, a neighborhood kid threw caustic in his face, damaging his eyes and giving his face a permanent squint. When he was twelve, his old man hauled him into New York's Children's Court and charged him with stealing his watch. The court sent "Squint" Sheridan to the Catholic Protectory for a year...
...when Evangelical Pastor Louis Schweitzer moved to the little Alsatian village of Giinsbach with his frail-looking six-month-old son Albert, the townspeople said: "Das Bueble isch die erschte Beer-digung wo der neue Pfarrer halte wird [That kid's going to be the new parson's first funeral]." The parson's wife decked out her yellow, pinch-faced baby in a white frock and colored ribbons for his father's induction ceremony. But even so, the visitors could manage no compliments for the baby, and Frau Pfarrer Schweitzer fled weeping to her bedroom with...
...Southland rich with new topsoil, year-round pastureland and milk-fed beef. The foundation of the Cope gospel is the fast-growing vine, kudzu;*he organized Georgia's Kudzu Club (20,000 members), and has plugged the vine so long that friends call him "the Kudzu Kid." It was betting on the horses that introduced Cope (and Georgia) to another important crop. On his way to drop a little money at the 1945 Kentucky Derby, Cope spotted a grass called Kentucky 31 fescue, later seeded some on his own farm; today there are 100,000 acres...
...Kid About Town. Eventually, said Roswell's Record, "the home town of Hurd will have the greatest collection of Hurd productions in the country. A generation from now, young persons will view his work and be told that the man who painted the pictures was one time a kid about town the same as they...
Roswell (pop. 25,000) was a sleepy little cow town when Hurd was a kid. He left it for two happy but unbrilliant years at West Point, later spent five years with the late Illustrator N.C. Wyeth, at Chadds Ford, Pa., learning to paint. Hurd married Wyeth's artist daughter Henriette, then moved back to New Mexico, where the Kurds and their three children have taken joyfully to ranch life. Says Hurd, who has gone on painting junkets to Egypt, Hawaii, Nigeria, India, England, Italy, Brazil and Morocco: "It just happens that this part of the planet is where...