Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come logic of a child's mind is played for its full charm. Bobby Henrey as Felipe gives the top performance of a well-acted movie. There is none of the sentimental cuteness about him that makes some child stars so objectionable; he acts like an authentic small boy. All through the film, there are glimpses of the "small boy" world...
Empty Cars & High Spirits. Next morning, as the presidential train clicked homeward, the President was up at 5 to confer with Chicago politicos-Boss Jake Arvey, ex-Mayor Ed Kelly, Senator Paul Douglas. Later, at Willard, Ohio, a T-shirted boy in the crowd shouted: "What do you think of Senator Taft?" Truman declined the bait. "I like him very much," said Harry Truman pleasantly...
...PARENT TO SAME CHILDREN; MEN THRASHED PIG UNTIL IT DIED. But what really sells the News of the World is not its headlines but its detailed, deadpan reporting of court testimony in all manner of sex and criminal cases. Sample, from last week's report of how BOY AGED 15 ACCUSES A MARRIED WOMAN: "The 15-year-old boy said in evidence that he often visited the house and played cards with [a married couple]. One night in the summer of 1948 he found [the wife] alone. She sat near him on the sofa and improperly assaulted...
...Bavaria," says Peter, "the king used to give 100 marks to a family that had seven boys born in a row. Also, the king would be godfather of the seventh boy. My mother had six sons, and when the seventh was coming, they thought it would be a boy, but it turned out to be a girl. So papa said, 'Well mama, I guess we have to try again.'" Unfortunately, the second try resulted in a similar buildup, and a similar let down...
Kilty's second contribution is a story called "A Moral Tale" about a four-star altar boy who turns out to be a pretty nasty little fellow after all. Though written with some good touches--such as a scene in which the saints in the church "watch" the boy steal from a collection basket--the story is unconvincing either as a satire of parish culture or as a psychological study of the child. An improbable ending, in which the boy showers a group of gaffers in a park with the pilfered church money and the old men have a sort...