Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recollection of his staff: "I do not suppose in the history of journalism there was ever such a bunch of misfits, crackpots and incompetents ... in one newspaper office . . ." The feeling, as Bingay tells it now, was obviously mutual. Reporters passed up stories for the sheer pleasure of seeing the boy wonder scooped...
...Molokai, which ended with his death from leprosy in 1889, Father Damien made many improvements, including a water system built largely with his own hands. Now the colony, located at Kalaupapa, has a 60-bed hospital, four doctors, a movie theater, beauty shop, Lions Club, American Legion post, Boy Scout troop. The patients, whose only diversion when Father Damien arrived was getting drunk on the juice of the ki tree, have dances and picnics; they learn rug-weaving, block-printing, sewing, raise food under the supervision of the University of Hawaii agricultural extension service...
...stop, about a city block past the finish line. They made the descent three times more before they pinned down the 1949 four-man bobsled championship. Average time: 1:13.32. Average speed: 46.8 m.p.h. Afterwards, Benham's No. 3 man, Jim Atkinson, felt his face and grinned: "Boy, was that wind cold." Somebody remarked: "It's all over but the drinking." Said Driver Benham: "I haven't had a drink in a long time . . . you can't drink and drive...
...eleven, Nebraska-born Art Stoddard went to Texas with his father, a grading contractor who was helping to build the Rock Island Line. Art got a job as water boy at 25? a day. He worked on railroads on & off while finishing school, joined the U.P. as a shop helper. After a World War I stint as a Navy radio operator, he worked up through U.P.'s ranks as a telegrapher, train dispatcher, trainmaster, assistant superintendent...
...them made box-office movies. Whatever the critics may say about Point of No Return (Marquand says, "I take a dim view of all serious critics-I don't know any who've had a kind word to say for me, ever since I was a little boy"), it is a sure bet that the U.S.'s big Marquand audience will...