Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waiting at Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital, Mrs. Hoffmann talked to another mother whose 18-month-old boy had the same eye disease. "I listened as she told me that there just wasn't any hope for her boy. 'The doctors are going to operate on him but I know it won't do any good,' she told me. There's nothing anyone can do for him.' Then she said the words that shocked me terribly and at the same time made me feel sorry for her. 'Sometimes,' she told...
...Greece's children have their wounds. About 23,000 were carried off by the Reds to the 'people's democracies' for Marxist education. A few managed to escape and joined 17,000 refugee children in homes organized by energetic Queen Fredericka. One half-starved, trembling boy at one children's camp said: 'They came at night . . . We hid in the cellar but they dragged us out. They shot father outside the village, took mother away, and left me there.' When I asked him if he would rather be in some other place than...
...restless Lester Pfister, the revolution was a long time coming. A farm boy who quit school in the eighth grade to work in the cornfields at $30 a month, he has been inbreeding and crossbreeding corn since 1925. Neighbors, watching him tie paper bags over corn tassels and ear shoots to control fertilization, called him "Crazy Lester." To keep up his experiments he mortgaged everything he owned. When depression hit, he stalled off bankruptcy only by ducking meetings of his creditors. One day he went to an El Paso bank to plead for a last-ditch loan. Unwrapping a newspaper...
Married. Robert Maynard Hutchins, 50, onetime boy prodigy of the educational world, who became president of the University of Chicago at 30 and chancellor (a specially created post) in 1945; and Vesta Sutton Orlick, 31, his secretary at Encyclopedia Britannica, where he heads the board of editors; each for the second time; in Washington Heights...
...frustration may be rather obscure to the non-Social Relations major. The picture does not give a blueprint for the treatment of all juvenile delinquents, and it is certainly not a publicity handout for the Wiltwyck School. It attempts to show the effects of insecurity on a young boy's mind, and the extent to which care and affection can overcome those effects. As the narrator points out, "there is no happy ending" to Donald's story, but the film itself is a happy end to a very successful venture...