Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lobstermen and fishermen of Provincetown, Mass, agreed last week that 17-year-old Frank Cabral Jr. would be a famous man until he died. The boy and his father headed seaward at 5 one morning in a 30-ft. powerboat with two dories in tow. They came back with a breathless tale...
Tito might save himself by recanting and promising to be a good boy henceforth. Otherwise Yugoslav Communists had stern Cominform instructions to "change the Communist leaders in Yugoslavia." For Communists of Tito's position, such changes usually meant exile in haste, prison, or a firing squad...
...thread of Senator Wherry's address, because of the woman in the background who blandly read a newspaper. Other strikingly human glimpses: a girl delegate smothering a yawn behind her compact during a dull speech; the grave face of a Puerto Rican delegate; a wide-eyed little boy in the gallery...
...Louis had been world heavyweight champion so long (eleven years and three days) that many people had forgotten the last one.* Idol of the Negro race, and so popular with the whites that the old cry for a "white hope" never came up, Joe Louis, the slow-thinking Alabama boy, was a champion the whole U.S. was proud of. No taint of suspicion ever hung over any of his 61 pro fights (although he was managed for years by racket men). The gate receipts grossed a whopping $11,000,000 of which his share...
...first laughing song. Among earlier successes: Ticklish Reuben (circa 1910), Laughing Boy Blues...