Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, major-league scouts drooled every time they saw big, tousle-haired Paul Pettit throw a baseball. Not since Fireball Bob Feller was an apple-cheeked Iowa schoolboy had they seen anything like Pettit. But by the laws of organized baseball it was taboo to discuss such down-to-earth matters as money with Pettit until his schooling was finished at Narbonne High in Lomita, Calif. While the scouts were counting the days until the 18-year-old pitcher graduated, they learned something that made them dry-mouthed and white-lipped...
...only thing everybody clearly agreed on was that Paul Pettit was "out of this world" as a pitching prospect. A southpaw, he stands 6 ft. 2 in. tall, weighs 205 Ibs., and throws a fast ball that "takes off." For four years Paul Pettit has completely befuddled schoolboy batters, once struck out 27 in a 12-inning game. In 1948, he performed the authentic Frank Merriwell stunt of pitching six no-hit, no-run games, . three of them in succession...
Only one man could give the final pat to this neat little colonial comedy, and any schoolboy could guess who he was after three sentences-Rudyard Kipling. This one story, written when Kipling was 44, is the only pure drop of storytelling in the bucket; the literary spigot, which by Kipling's 24th year had already spouted seven fine volumes, began to go rusty when he was still a young man. But one good story by Rudyard Kipling is quite enough to make a book worth having...
...good spanking for Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 17, was recommended by the Sunday Pictorial, a London tabloid, because "her behavior in breaking off engagements has become as silly as a schoolboy smoking cigars." Meanwhile, in Hollywood, beautiful Elizabeth had a date with a new fellow: Home Run Slugger Ralph Kiner of the Pittsburgh Pirates...