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...lives on Manhattan's fashionable Beekman Place, but she runs wild with a gang of dead-end kids on the banks of the East River. The other children at Miss Drew's School for Girls are delivered and fetched by governesses; Meg comes clattering up on roller skates, a tense, skinny gamin who wears a big hunting knife and dreams of being suckled by a lioness. When a furtive little man makes advances toward her in an automat one day, she goes right on eating her raisin bun, looks him square in the eye and asks...
Charles Sawyer-much as he looked the part-was neither banker nor industrialist. The businesslike Secretary of Commerce owned, among other things, an interest in the Cincinnati Reds ball club, the minor-league Cincinnati Mohawks hockey team, and the Shooting Star roller coaster. He was, primarily, a lawyer, a politician, a promoter...
...also has minor interests in an advertising firm, the Churngold (margarine) Corp., American Thermos Bottle, Procter & Gamble, the Reds and the Garden. Besides the Lancaster newspaper, he controls Dayton's WING and Springfield's WIZE radio stations, and Cincinnati's Coney Island. Its Shooting Star roller coaster is the fastest ride in the state of Ohio...
...Converts. But wrestling and the roller derby, hippodromed spectacles that masquerade as sports, hailed television as a savior. The roller derby, after a dozen years of life in the back streets, still ranked in popularity with curling and hurling when it went on TV in 1947. Since then it has played to sellout audiences, 90% of whom first saw it over TV. Wrestling, too, had a sweaty, dying pallor until it was hurried onto TV as an inexpensive fillin. So astounding was its success that when Promoter Ned Irish put a wrestling match into Madison Square Garden last month...
...artists on exhibition had dared to enter the fun house of abstract art or to ride the roller coaster of expressionism. The mirrored walls and revolving floors of abstraction were clearly better suited to professionals who like doing things the hard way, and the violent expression of emotions would never do for people who painted to relax...