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...Sehulberg's book opens, Halliday is a diabetie, a debtor, a voice of the twenties which is no longer heard. He is assigned to collaborate with a worshipful youngster on a movie, "Love on Ice," which he calls, "An orphan child born of artificial insemination on a box office counter." As the two writers seek a plot for this movie, Halliday gradually exposes his past...
...Airman Kepner was remarkably well fitted to be top boss in a crucial tri-service operation. As a youngster he had done a hitch in the Marines, later had marched with the Army infantry on the Mexican border. In 1917, he was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant in the cavalry, fought through the toughest land battles of World War I in France and won a D.S.C. for leading a patrol into a German machine-gun nest. Between wars he became an Army expert on ballooning (in 1934 got to 60,613 feet in the Explorer I before she ripped apart...
...Scandinavian Airlines to Stockholm. From Stockholm, without calling Mrs. Pontecorvo's mother, who lives in a suburb of the Swedish capital, they quickly flew on to Helsinki. During the trip, one of their little sons prattled to a fellow passenger, "We're going to Russia." When the youngster saw land below after crossing the Baltic, he asked, "Is that Russia...
Fifteen years ago Casey Stengel, then manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, took a quick look at a skinny little kid who claimed to be a shortstop. Casey gave the youngster a blunt piece of advice: "Go peddle your papers, Shorty, you're too small ever to become a major-leaguer...
Ludar's growing up is the old story of the sensitive, struggling youngster who wants to be a writer. He falls into first-love and writes his first novel. To fill up the picture, Author Costain offers such familiar turn-of-the-century sideshows as a feud between the sons of Balfour's leading family, the sight of the first car on the town's streets, a runaway cutter, balls, belles and sleighbells. None of these trappings quite disguises the fact that Hero Ludar is as dim as a 50-year-old memory and that...