Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the $99,331.38 discrepancy, the 1918 job is the same one the King of the Safecrackers is claiming credit for, the old boy may have to start shelling out some of his boasted 15,000,000 ill-gotten dollars for a good lawyer...
...farm in the Languedoc region of southern France. When Pierre was 14, he went away to a school near Paris run by the Christian Brothers; five years later he was teaching there. He heard much talk then of the "proletariat" and of revolution. But to farm-boy Maurin such solutions did not seem to be solutions at all. Man, he felt, should stay close to the land...
...free-lance photographer, sometimes picks up extra money by selling spot news pictures to the New York Journal-American. One day last week, he was standing outside a Manhattan parochial school on his sales route, talking to a priest, when a youngster ran up and gasped: "Father, a little boy's been hit by a truck." Grabbing his camera from his car, Robbins ran after the priest...
Next day, Al Robbins' best shot of the dying boy (see cut) made Page One of the Mirror. (Another Robbins picture of the same scene was on Page 20 of the Journal-American). Bob Wendlinger's byline was on the Mirror cut, but Robbins had the satisfaction of having taken a memorable picture, poignant with the tragedy that lurks on a city's streets...
This new biography makes it clear how Emerson struggled to keep close to the common life. It was not easy. Born in Boston in 1803, the son of a preacher, forbidden to play with "rude boys," Ralph Waldo used to hang on the fence, peering down the street in the hope that he would discover what a rude boy...