Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know that when I start college in 1950 I shall have to specialize. I asked myself many times if I shouldn't just become a "Nature Boy" and study life, man, behavior patterns and such, but I can't feed or keep a family on culture...
...taught young Louis Arthur Johnson that there was only one profession fitting for a Virginia gentleman. Be a lawyer, he advised the boy, a lawyer and a Democrat. Shortly after his grandfather's death, 16-year-old Louis announced, in a characteristically firm fashion: "I am going to be on the Supreme Court of the United States some...
...Cannes, Elsa Maxwell introduced Rita Hayworth (ne´e Cansino in New York) to Prince Aly Khan, a demigod to five million Moslems of the Ismaili sect, and heir to one of the biggest fortunes in the world.* Though Rita was still the wife of onetime Wonder Boy Orson Welles, and Aly had not yet severed his marital tie with British-born Joan Yarde-Buller (exwife of Brewing Heir Thomas Loel Guinness), the lovers showed all the symptoms of sophomores in the throes of their first passion...
...Rita and Aly flew down to Mexico City. For two days the couple remained barricaded in a suite in the Hotel Reforma. From Mexico the lovers flew to Cuba, attempting the arch pretense that they were barely acquainted. To reporters' questions, Swiss-educated Aly replied: "Look here, old boy, I'd like to answer your questions, but how can I when they are so embarrassing...
Meanwhile the lonely old woman sits and remembers. "There's no reason," she muses, "for Nico to be Communist. Sometimes I blame myself because I used to beat him when he was a bad boy." Then her eyes kindle for a moment. "But he wrote me once," she goes on, "he wrote and said I was a good mother." She adds bitterly: "I was a good mother, whose womb has cradled a snake...