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lost soldier. These college boys are up on their history, and now it is
the woo-woo boys instead of bundlers, spooners and neckers who would rather
have a good thm at parties and dates and automobile joyrides, even in gas
rationing days, than the boy who, saying no a thousand times to the easy
life, will pass up indigestible yet tasty foods, will go to bed each night
long before the good-timers are in bed -- all for the sake of being a first
rate fighting man in high school and sollege athletics.

Someone has said that when two country boys meet they say, "Let's
wrestle." When two city slickers meet they say, "Let's throw a party.”

Contact and combat have always appealed to strong men. The
sacrificial spirit that resides in every young chap is ready for expression
if you can grip and hold the aims and the ideals of the teen-age boy. The
hundreds end thousands of young boys all over America and all over the world
have viewed Glenn Cunningham as a super-man. Glenn Cunningham was a super~
man. You will recall the story of how his brother was burned to death in a
school-house fire, how Glenn was so dangerously injured in that fire that the
phyeielone gave up all hope of his ever walking again. He could not go to
school. Those great scars that show welts on his legs as large as your
little finger were the result of that terrible fire. But Glem Cunningham
had a longing to go to school. He thirsteth for knowledge, and the first
time he ran away from home, Glenn told me, he ran away to school. He always
dreamed of being a college professor, mmixkmixy After his graduation from the
University of Kansas where he obtained his baccalaureate degree and set the
world's records in the mile, he entered the University of Iowg where he
obtained his master's degree, and then on to New York University where he
obtained his doctor of philosophy degree and continued to dazzle the world
with his phenomenal bursts of speed. At the present time he is head of the