Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...success are not hard to find. He spreads calm and good will like a road-oiling wagon. At home he is a model father to his three daughters, Margery, 15, Joyce, 14, Randall, 7. When they were younger he liked to tell them stories; particularly the story about the boy with his finger in the dike. But when business was on his mind he sometimes lost interest in the story and began mumbling about a law case. "Never mind the law case," the children would shout, "tell us about the boy with his finger in the dike." The family plays...
Arthur Thexton quit his job, enrolled at Columbia to get an M.A. As a college boy at Williams, he had been able to get along by scribbling down a few notes in class. Now, he takes down everything his lecturers say, spends hours each night going over his notes. Says he: "At my age it is much harder to retain the stuff than it was at 19." A member of Cincinnati's reform Charter Party, he wants to teach college courses in government...
...ever darkening world." The world's irreligion he does not blame on the churches, but on the people "who won't listen." He confesses to a leaning toward Anglo-Catholicism, but is un-Joadishly diffident about airing his theological views. "I am such a new boy at this," he explains, "that I'd better not say any more about...
...Winslow Boy. An Edwardian cause celebre turned into effective, well-played theater (TIME...
...proud new father, Robert Geissmann nevertheless gagged at the ruffles and ribbons bedecking his month-old son Jon Christopher. Why couldn't a little boy be dressed in something more masculine, he demanded. His wife Gladys, designer and ex-commercial artist, decided that the best way to please her husband was to make Christopher's baby clothes herself. As Christopher grew, she kept...