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...John Florence Sullivan, 52 years ago, on the lace-curtain-Irish fringe of Cambridge, Mass. His father was a bookbinder. His mother died when he was three, and he and his brother Bobby went to live with her sister,"Aunt Lizzie" Herlihy, in Allston, Mass. He was a scrawny kid, all arms, legs and adenoids. The tough little Micks in his new neighborhood took one look at his pinched, birdlike face, nicknamed him "Twit," and let him play alone. To pass time - and attract attention - Johnny started juggling whatever came to hand. "That," says Fred, "was my first and biggest...
...brandy-muzzling relative are effective; Paul Harvey is excellent as the Worcester girl's forthright father; and Peggy Cummins (who won and then lost the lead in Forever Amber) is a very pretty though not very Bostonian daughter. The real star of the show is an ex-Quiz Kid named Vanessa Brown who, as the timid cousin Richard Ney doesn't want to marry, suggests an early Janet Gaynor or a younger Ingrid Bergman...
...that expansion will be necessary in the long run, once the State returns to normalcy, need only be shown the number turned away from M.S.C. in the last ten years. Besides, there will be no return to the prewar educational flow in and out of colleges. Soon the veterans' kid brothers will be wanting to go to college, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at the present time prepared to do away with its emergency measures, must meet its future responsibilities by expanding its retarded facilities for State education...
...cover a cock pheasant and came to point. Stan walked in for the flush with his gun in position. I gave the signal and out came the bird. With a leap and a bound, Red made a perfect catch in the air. Everyone was surprised and began to kid Stan, saying that he would have missed anyway, so we gave Red credit for the save. Not thinking Red would repeat the performance, Stan was told he had but one more chance and he'd better make it good or the dog would...
...Deep South execution chamber, after talking with four boys (one 16, two 17, one 19) who are soon to die there, the sheriff speaks with the tickled-pink fascination of a kid with a new erector set: "This is where we're going to execute them. . . . Over here is where the chair will be. We used to hang them. The noose came down here and the ropes were tied to the bars on this window here. Then we cut this trap in the floor here, and we dropped them below and they carried the bodies away. That made...