Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week an Indian boy walked into the Victoria Times office, left a scrawled-over sheet of brown wrapping paper, then scurried away. Said his unsigned note: "On Congo River-the witch doctors' law -all small boats have rope on keels-for his men to hold on to when boats upset on rapids. White men do not never learn...
...that really moved with the erratic spontaneity of street life. But The Bicycle Thief is oddly static. Events move predictably and almost mechanically. Each small experience of the distraught hero is meticulously rounded and forced in sentiment, character coloring and social comment.Even the minor movements of the actors-the boy's tumble on a rainy street, the mother's fingering of her cheek-appear overrehearsed...
Frank Carney, retired Superintendent of the Buildings of the College Library, died yesterday at 88. Carney began work at the College as a chore boy when 12 years old, and worked his way up the ranks until he was appointed superintendent...
...crew. So he and five of his strapping sons took jobs as roughnecks until they learned how to drill an oil well. Then they bought some secondhand equipment and drilled five shallow wells on their own place, where the sixth and youngest son worked with them as a water boy. Now, with an income of about $5,000 a month, Ellis has bought a new tractor and pickup truck, a complete electric kitchen for his wife, a linoleum rug for the parlor...
...Fallen Idol. Author Graham Greene and Director Carol Reed wring suspense from the story of a small boy in a world of adult intrigues (TIME, April...