Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then a downright embarrassing thing happened. Redheaded Christine Johnston, who says the governor is the father of her baby boy (TIME, March 15), filed 264 questions she wanted Jim to answer before her paternity suit goes to court. Hadn't Jim told Billy Pichelmayer that he and Christine were married and that she was pregnant? And hadn't he said: "Billy, us men ought to keep our wives barefooted and pregnant"? And hadn't Jim changed the baby's diapers and fed him his bottle...
...morals of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis were secure, after midshipmen had given one performance of Boy Meets Girl. The play, a faintly risque farce, was obviously too much for the superintendent's wife-she swept out at the end of the second act. The superintendent, Rear Admiral James L. Holloway Jr., followed. Next day the rest of the play's three-day run was abruptly canceled...
When a 16-year-old Jewish boy named Alexander Rubovitz disappeared, someone remembered seeing him on the Jerusalem-Jericho road, being pursued by a man and forced into a cab. The man's cap was found; it contained the initials R.A.F. On that evidence, Roy Farran was accused of Rubovitz' murder. He escaped to Syria, then returned to face a British court-martial, and was acquitted. When Farran left for England in October, terrorists plastered Tel Aviv walls with leaflets: "Farran's time will come. We will go after him until the end of the world...
Provost Elliott Dunlap Smith of Carnegie Tech thought that each boy had to work out his own values for himself. He told how, as a boy, he nad built a desk to last a lifetime, after long labor asked his teacher whether one panel was good enough. When the teacher told him to figure it out for himself, Smith scrapped the panel and made another one. The desk was still serving him last week, and so was the lesson. Said he: "Morals can be better taught incidentally...
Patients were not required to return for a second visit. Some died (of diabetes); others developed the sores of diabetic gangrene. One little boy was told by the kindly old doctors that it would be quite all right for him to eat ice cream again. He went to a birthday party, ate heartily and sank into a diabetic coma...