Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four sentences to the President's message to Congress (see above). Wallace's rebuttal got two columns. One Nancy Norman, a U.S. ballet dancer, back in London after a six-weeks' visit to Moscow, said that Wallace was "Russia's No. 1 foreign pin-up boy...
Double Triangles. Easy Ed Macauley, who at 19 looks like an overgrown altar boy, got a respectful hand from the crowd. But most of the 18,491 spectators were obviously rooting for New York University's white-uniformed Violets, who had won 19 straight, had stayed undefeated longer than any other major college team. They were missing their star set-shot artist, Don Forman, out with an aching back...
...fancy prep school for rich kids until the middle of World War II. Now it was getting ready to reopen in the fall. The school's new head had hired Butch (for 50? a week) to live in the place, so he could see how an ordinary boy would improve on the carefully arranged surroundings. The new head, Provost Donald W. Pierpont, 41, needed all the hints he could get to make sense out of the "Deed of Trust" that the school's founder had left behind...
Avon, wrote Mrs. Riddle firmly, "was founded for the sons of the gentry. ... It is difficult, if not impossible, for Avon to develop [honor and culture] in a boy, if he has not been trained in early years." She expected the well-born youngsters to wear black ties and dark jackets by night, Brooks Brothers grey flannels by day, play no interscholastic sport except polo, learn fly-casting and the manly art of self-defense...
...terms of the whole effort. During a nightmare of battle, for example, Peter gains enduring respect for the unique integrity of Gene Wenisloski--an emotional attachment extending beyond Wenisloski's death under fire. And Peter's brief stop in Chicago to look up Harry Myers, renegade Communist turned boy's settlement leader, burns with a quality which had it been transposed into a consistent thread for the entire novel would have spelled far greater stature...