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Cook has fizz to spare. As a youngster in Escanaba, Mich., he started peddling papers, helped work his way through the University of Michigan with a job in the library and with bridge winnings, and started at the bottom in SEC. He got a law degree at night school, moved up to assistant director, then spent two years in the Justice Department before he left Government service in June 1947 to enter private law practice...
...very funny, but nobody laughed. Then Director Ford, still sitting down, gave the cue: he threw back his head and rocked with laughter. From that moment, Duke began to revere John Ford. Not to be outdone, Ford gave the youngster his fatherly affection. "I could see," Ford says now, "that here was a boy who was working for something-not like most of the other guys, just hanging around to pick up a few fast bucks. Duke was really ambitious and willing to work. Inside of a month or six weeks we were fast friends, and I used to advise...
...youngster who had been shot in the holdup had come out of surgery. "The kid was lucky," the surgeon said. "An inch or two either way, and the bullet would have severed the aorta or portal vein or the hepatic artery. As it is, he'll live...
...days. But he was out on the moors, delivering a baby, when his stock crashed, leaving him ?7. Cronin decided that he had learned another priceless lesson; he dug into his pocket to buy the newborn baby a silver mug, inscribed with the youngster's name and the words, "What money...
Search for a Hero, by Mississippian Thomas Hal Phillips, is the most successful. The hero, Don Meadows, is a quiet youngster who has long felt overshadowed by his football-playing brothers. Don's father doesn't think much of him either, and that is another reason Don volunteers for the Navy. Don survives training, battle and a wound, and goes back to his home town to find that the war hasn't changed his stay-at-home brothers very much, or himself either. He decides that the real battlefield of life is the self. At 29, Author...