Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody paid any attention as he sauntered, pistol in hand, into Clark Hoover's barbershop. Inside, a six-year-old boy with a white apron around his neck was sitting astride a raised hobbyhorse. The barber stood beside him clipping busily. Wordlessly, Howard Unruh aimed his pistol. He shot the boy on the hobbyhorse through the chest and head, then fired again and killed the barber...
With the lights doused by a storm and his wife about to give birth, Notre Dame Football Coach Frank Leahy, 41, urgently called two doctors to his Indiana home. They arrived to find that Leahy, working by candlelight, had already safely delivered the Leahy's sixth child, fourth boy ("a fullback, I think"). The coach's critique: "If you think a football game is exciting, you should have been at our house last night...
Broadway Matinee Idol Ezio (South Pacific) Pinza, 57, had something new to put him farther ahead of the theater's other romantic leads: his first grandchild, a boy, born to his daughter, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Claudia Pinza...
...room were a tribute to Wilson's first half-century in what G.E. calls its "family." Fifty years ago, at the age of twelve, young Charlie Wilson had come out of the slums of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen to take a $3-a-week office boy's job with a company that later became part of G.E. Now it was Wilson's turn to get the same small, 50-year button that, as president, he had pinned on so many other G.E. oldtimers. Last week, at a small banquet in Manhattan's Hotel...
...devil worked overtime; he was described by one hysteric as "a short and black man-a Wretch no taller than an ordinary Walking Staff ... he wore a high crowned hat with straight hair; and he had one Cloven Foot." Another accuser casually referred to him as "ye old boy...