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Around a corner in The Bronx scuttled a wild-eyed runt. The kid's tiny round head was ducked between high, skinny shoulders, his nose was bleeding, and he sobbed as he ran. After him pounded three bigger boys. One by one they gave up the chase; the runt ran too fast. He ran until he was out of sight. He is running still...
Billy the Kid. That is life in the "upholstered trap" fashioned for himself by William Samuel Rosenberg, born in 1899 on a kitchen table on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His father was a peddler who would rather have been a poet. "When people were doing passementerie," says Billy, "he was in fringe." On the fringe is where the Rosenbergs lived. They never held on to a set of rooms for long; it was cheaper to move (to The Bronx or to Brooklyn) than pay the rent...
This was a bizarrely distorted montage of the facts. Hollywood handles trade unions with kid gloves, if at all, has scarcely mentioned Communism since the screamingly pro-Russian Mission to Moscow. Even more obviously false was Zhukov's statement that "the stink of race prejudice is smelled miles away. . . . While 100% Americans are always brave and noble heroes, Negroes are either imbeciles . . . or wild beasts inspiring the hatred of the audience. . . ." Actually, Hollywood (though it is inclined to show Negroes as rather simple) has not presented a violently villainous Negro since The Birth of a Nation...
...kid of seven, Willie Mosconi was wan and trigger-tempered. In South Philadelphia he was famed as a deadly accurate pool shooter. Many an afternoon he shuffled into his father's barber shop and heard his Pa say: "Willie, there's a man in the back room who thinks he's better than you." Willie would grab a cue and go to work-with Pa betting as high as $100 on his boy. Business was brisk, and Willie got better with...
...written for his Economist off & on ever since, and is now assistant editor on foreign affairs. On the BBC "Brains Trust" program (the English equivalent of Information Please) Laborite Barbara was one participant who never said "I don't know." Audiences loved her for her quiz-kid memory. Between broadcasts she lectured on politics and economics, labored for the liberal Roman Catholic "Sword of the Spirit" movement...