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...brains, personality-and more surplus energy than anyone I've ever known. Like all 18-year-olds, he's up against the problems of women and liquor. A flat "No" certainly isn't the answer to those problems. It's a tough stage for any youngster. And I don't think prohibition is making it easier for him to work it out for himself...
Lindsay has been in the theater since he played Polly of the Circus as a youngster. His upsy-downsy youth included being head man in a tent show, acting in Shakespeare and burlesque. In the early '20s he turned director (Dulcy, To the Ladies); in the early '30s he clicked as an author with She Loves Me Not. In between he married petite, blonde Actress Dorothy Stickney (Mother in Life With Father...
Before Pearl Harbor Jack Singer was a New York Journal-American sportswriter with a talent for making friends and turning out sharp copy. When war came, the slim, good-looking youngster (27) said his job was unimportant, asked for foreign service. Last April he got it. Word of his mishap moved Navy Secretary Knox to say: "I think we all feel a great sense of pride at the long chance men are taking to get the news...
...before the District of Columbia Board of Education last week was a new health course for Washington school boys & girls. Its theme: the evils of the Demon Rum and Nicotine. Calculated to scare a youngster stiff, the course totted up an unusually extensive list of dire results of smoking and drinking-from duodenal ulcer to divorce...
Knox's spiritual pedigree goes back to Teddy ("King Theodore I") Roosevelt, and there it stops. As a chunky, redheaded youngster of 24 he went to Cuba with Roosevelt and the Rough Riders. He tore his pants ignominiously on barbed wire in his first battle, got a bullet through his hat and a lifelong case of hero worship. Like Teddy Roosevelt, he believes in strong talk and the Big Stick. Like Teddy Roosevelt, he believes in the strenuous life; at 68, he adheres to a muscular regimen that would kill many a younger...