Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped 14-year-old Bobby Franks, knocked him unconscious, violated him, killed him, poured acid over his face, buried his body in a culvert on a forest reserve. Wealthy South Side Jews, the Leopold, Loeb and Franks families were friends and neighbors. When the boy's body was found, Loeb, 18, and the University of Michigan's youngest graduate, called at the Franks home to offer condolences, helped police search for clues. Leopold, a brilliant law student at the University of Chicago and at 18 an ornithologist of repute, continued with his bird...
Albert D. ("Dolly") Stark was born on Manhattan's lower East Side, son of a second-hand clothes dealer who never had enough spare stock to supply his son with a coat to match his trousers. Small Stark envied the boy who lived across the street, whose name was Walter Winchell, and who owned a Buster Brown suit of blue serge. When he grew up Dolly Stark became a professional baseball player. He gave it up in 1921, went to Dartmouth as basketball coach three years later, kept up his interest in baseball by umpiring summers...
...Trenton, N. J., Charles Gerofsky's furnace boy, Joseph Duggan, found the Gerofskys out and used the telephone to call Cinemactress Jean Harlow in Hollywood. She was out and he left a message for her to call him back. She did so. after Mr. Gerofsky had come home. Cost...
Appropriations totalling $450 were also voted by the council for the support of local charitable institutions. Though $200 were voted to the 1936 Boston Community Fund, $100 to both the Foreign Students Commission and the Cambridge Boy Scouts? and $50 to the Cambridge Y. M. C. A.; the Council has been unable to lend its accustomed support to several Cambridge charities including the Family Welfare, the Salvation Army, and the Industrial Aid Society as student pledges to the council have not as yet been sufficiently fulfilled. The council budget demands $2500 be pledged and paid by students, yet less than...
Everyone is good in Hepburn's new picture except the renowned Katherine and even she becomes more entertaining when dressed as a boy. The honors of the production belong to Cary Grant who gives a fine performances as a cockney carnival man, accent and mannerisms as well as clothes. Brian Aherne becomes a little soupy in his courting, as artists may be expected to do, but he does really good work throughout the picture...