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...thousands on the Street and soon got close enough to the imperial J. P. Morgan to be able to inquire at a dinner party: "Railroad deal, Mr. Morgan? What's all this about?" Mike gleefully quotes a Morgan man on Adventurer Mike Hedges: "Goddamit, I never saw a youngster with such a brass neck." Moving on to Mexico, Mike Hedges fell afoul of Guerrilla Leader Pancho Villa, and-as he tells it-narrowly escaped execution as an American spy. To prove his English nationality, he flashed Villa an orthodox Guardsman's salute and sang God Save the King...
...last week that the U.S. formally entered the space age. By week's end, in millions of U.S. homes, the bright-eyed youngster with a space helmet in the closet and a space comic under his pillow was being listened to with new interest. Man seemed to be much closer to Whitman's eerie concept of other globes springing out noiseless from...
...roly-poly youngster. Campy sold newspapers, cut grass, shined shoes. Mornings he got up at 2:30 to help his older brother Lawrence run a milk route. By 5:30 he was back in bed; at 8 he was on his way to school. Always, young Roy's income was turned over to his mother, and always, his allowance was spent on movies or a ball game. Shibe Park (now Connie Mack Stadium) was within walk ing distance of the Campanella home, and any afternoon there was a game. Roy was there, too. For a quarter a kid could...
Strong Contender. The shy youngster who reached River Hebert with only $2 in his pocket now wins more than $300,000 a year, is a trotting equivalent of "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons and Eddie Arcaro combined. He drives a Cadillac painted in the bright gold and white colors of his stables, and he modestly gives the credit for his good luck to the St. Christopher medal he wears...
Besides love and security, says Dr. Kelley, a youngster needs simple corporal punishment. This should change after age seven or so to adult types of punishment -fines and loss of privileges, always with reasoned explanations. If the child is not secure, Dr. Kelley conceded, the controls may make him neurotic. But that fear, first sown by Freud, has run wild through U.S. education and childrearing. The result: "A generation of children who have not been taught the discipline required for getting along with the world...