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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Kiski had indeed been good to many a U.S. college: it had produced more all-America football players (67)* than any other prep school. But to Headmaster Clark, that sort of reputation was suddenly disturbing. "Why," he kept asking himself, "can't we make our boys as interested in studying as they are in football...
...long before polls became a national preoccupation, an inquisitive schoolteacher named Estelle M. Darrah decided to find out what sort of heroes & heroines children had. She polled 1,440 youngsters, aged 12 to 14. Last week, after finishing a similar survey of his own, Professor Lawrence A. Averill of Worcester (Mass.) State Teachers College reported in School and Society how times and heroes have changed...
Before anyone had said so officially, without needing someone to spell it out, the U.S. people had realized that this was going to be a long pull and a tough one. Said one veteran: "At first, all of us were sort of kidding about it, saying 'Well, are you ready to go?' Now the kidding has stopped." Last week, looking at the news pictures as the First Marine Division embarked at San Diego, every veteran was wondering: How soon will they want...
...them, Richard Howden, told the investigators that the other, one Tom ("Sailor") Burke, had been the sheriff's "bag man," had delivered $36,000 in payoff money to the sheriff's wife and had gotten signed receipts for the boodle. Burke, however, heatedly denied the charge. That sort of thing, he strongly implied, was unlawful...
Tennis Player Gertrude ("Gorgeous Gussie") Moron, whose lengthy pigtails have become almost as famous as her lace panties, shocked her admirers by appearing at the London airport with a "sort of an overgrown urchin cut." Explained Gussie: "They were getting on my nerves. I got up this morning and there was my hair down the back of my neck. So I got out my scissors and snipped...