Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ponderous, prolix debater, with an edgy temper and a taste for snappy double-breasted suits, Scott Lucas likes to describe himself as just another Midwestern farm boy. He is also a smalltown lawyer (in Havana, Ill.; pop. 3,999), an ex-professional baseball player (in the Three-Eye League), a onetime national judge advocate of the American Legion...
Romantic Gesture. One of the "alien spouses" turned out to be a husband-a displaced Hungarian photographer named Gabor Rona who had married an ex-SPAR named Blossom Bernstein. Then there was Elisabeth Albinus, a pretty German girl whose ex-sergeant boy friend walked out on her two hours after she arrived at Idlewild Airport. Lissome Elisabeth got her picture in the tabloids, received at least one offer of adoption, 50, proposals and a free English course from the Linguaphone Institute of America...
Roaming through the familiar streets, she met an old boy friend generally known in the nickname-loving neighborhood as "The Chink." (Why he is called that, no one can say. When pressed for an explanation, a local bartender shrugged: "Why do they call me 'The Cheese...
...Morcom, "the barefoot boy from New Hampshire," will put on a special polevaulting exhibition at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at Briggs Cage as a feature of the informal track meet between Boston University, Northeastern, and the Crimson...
...compulsory education. "A long time ago," he said, "society decided that education was good and that everyone, whether or not he could afford it or had the sense to get it, should get education. The need for health care is similarly desirable--what is the sense of educating a boy if he dies...