Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the first atomic bomb exploded, a few earnest scientists have been trying, like Dickens' fat boy, "to make your flesh creep." But it took a science editor to do a really competent flesh-creeping job. Last week Perry Githens, editor of Popular Science, gave Philadelphia's Poor Richard Club (advertising men) some thoughts to shudder over...
Bebop is also a way of life (slogan: "be hip, be sharp, be bop!"). Its feverish practitioners like to wear berets, goatees and green-tinted horn-rimmed glasses, talk about their "interesting new sounds." The high priest is Dizzy, 30, a South Carolina boy whose rapid-fire, scattershot talk has about the same pace-and content-as his music. Whether he, an obscure Manhattan pianist named Thelonius Monk or Saxophonist Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker invented bebop is a matter of learned dispute among beboppers...
...nice snug hold." Instead, he would tell him to work the half in 50 seconds?and he meant neither one second more nor one second less. Eddie learned to have a clock in his head." In New Orleans in 1933?the year Brokers Tip won the Derby?a "bug boy"* named Arcaro began to get into print. He was top rider at the meeting, with 43 wins...
...stewards called Arcaro up to the stand, asked him if he had done it on purpose, and expected the usual denial. Instead Arcaro blurted: "I'd of killed the son of a bitch if I could." He was suspended for a whole year, and decided to be a good boy. "You know," he says, "I don't even break my golf sticks on the golf course any more...
...Universal. It buttressed its case with suits against Griffith Amusement Co. (with theaters in 85 towns in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico) and the Stanley Co. Also sued was Schine Theater Co. (150 theaters in six states), owned by J. Myer Schine (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946), a small-town boy who still lives at Gloversville, N.Y. (pop.: 23,000). (In his spare time, Schine also put together a chain of nine hotels, including Florida's swank Boca Raton Club and Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel...