Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clinic and in his office, Schmidt has trained a score of urologists, whom he calls his "boys." As a teacher, he was unmercifully stern. During one operation he rapped an assistant sharply across the knuckles with a surgical instrument. The assistant retaliated by swatting Schmidt right back. The old surgeon stared angrily at the "boy" for a moment and then muttered: "I didn't hit you that hard...
...younger, stormier days, he could wither a strong man with his swearing. "He swore so much," recalls one student, "he had to hyphenate his words to get them all in." Rare was the Schmidt boy who was not roundly berated, fired and rehired every few days...
Even registered Orthodox priests cannot hold classes in religion for children under 18. A nine-year-old boy showed Father George how children learned their catechism. "He held up his left hand, fingers outspread. T have five friends. I know my catechism from my comrade, who learned it from his grandmother. I have to teach it to my five friends . . . I give them an examination. Then if they pass, they become teachers. Each of them has to pass it on to five other friends. That's the way it spreads...
...through a half-hour show with M.C. Bob Smith. In Chicago, Burr Tillstrom's Kukla, Fran and Ollie is not only the best children's show but has been called the best show of any kind on Midwestern TV. Puppets Kukla and Ollie are, respectively, a small boy and a kindly, one-toothed dragon. Fran is blonde Actress Fran Allison, the only human to appear regularly on the show. Even the patrons of Chicago's bars have come to like Kukla's witty, natural dialogue and such supporting puppets as Beulah the Witch and Fletcher...
Some of his crispest observations are leveled at the political nature of the Greek people. Writes Lancaster: "In a country where everyone from the shoeshine boy ... to the cotton millionaire . . . regards himself, quite rightly, as uncommon and unique, the coming of the century of the common man is likely to be indefinitely postponed...