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...Among Civil War youngster Generals: Jackson, 37; Stuart, 28; Pickett, 37; Custer, 23; Forrest, 41; Sheridan, 31. At Appomattox, Grant...
...Veterans of Foreign Wars, convening at Manhattan's Commodore Hotel last week, had the proud, britches-busting look of a youngster who has just discovered he is growing...
...Nolan was a pale-faced, bucktoothed youngster of 23 when he scudded into Eire's Civil Service on a foam of brilliant answers to such questions as "How far is the earth from the moon?" Born in Northern Ireland's County Tyrone, he had lived until then without notable incident save a visit to Germany...
...contemporaries remember him as a slender, dark, fiery-eyed youngster who rode beautifully, could do anything with his hands and did nothing with his mind. Also he stuttered. Some of his classmates admired his dash. Others, of the sober sort, considered him thoroughly worthless. They made a play on his name: Tear-around-the-mess-hall Allen...
Though no Navy pay was "on the books" for youngster, he netted 43 cents from amused officers...