Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief plot of "Les Eufants" concerns the nebulous love affair of an unwordly mime, Baptiste, and a tarnished but not unattractive young lady named Garance. Around this powerfully developed theme lie constellations of characters and stories: the rise of Frederick, the Actor of the Age; the life and death of Garance's titled paramour; and glimpses into the lives of actors and criminals and others too numerous to describe...
Crown Prince Akihito, 14, is unsmirched by the war: to Japanese, he would be a spotless symbol. The prevalent view last week was that Hirohito would abdicate in his son's favor, with Hirohito's brother, Prince Takamatsu, assuming a regency until Akihito comes of age. Many Japanese who most urgently want to preserve the imperial institution are most in favor of Hirohito's stepping down...
...grumped Trainer Jimmy Jones. "Why couldn't a fellow have these two horses in separate years?" The two wonder horses-Citation and Coaltown-were the same age (3), had the same daddy (Bull Lea) and the same owner (Calumet Farm). Apparently, each was the other's only competition: it seemed a sheer waste of horsepower to put both of them on the same race track...
That was just the sort of thing this particular delegation would notice. They were some of the 40 crack teen-age spellers, the pick of four million schoolkids from all over the U.S., in Washington for the 21st annual Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee. The prize ($500) looked almost as big as some of the words they would be asked to spell...
...doctor who would thus doom a patient to savorless old age, said the Journal of Medicine, might well be the president of a local geriatric society "shooting for a record . . . What is his conception of his place in society, of his duty to his patients? Who is he to deny the old man the pleasure of passing the reviewing stand . . . saluting the colors, and, if God is good, falling dead at the long anticipated climax of his life? Who is any man to presume to prolong life at the expense of the sacrifice of every bit of its romance, bite...