Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexicans, Gaona is more than that. He is the dark-skinned Indian boy who 41 years ago brought even haughty Spaniards roaring to their feet when he fought on the same program with the great Juan Belmonte and José ("Joselito") Gómez y Ortega. Race-proud Spaniards called him El Indio, made him fight harder than the others for the reward of ears and tail...
...beautiful women of the Spanish stage, resentful aficionados pelted him with cushions and bottles. He swore never to fight in Madrid again. Dark-eyed Carmen soon left him to become the great & good friend of Alfonso XIII, but Mexican legend has since reversed the story: it was the Indian boy who got the king's girl...
...tradition, 83-year-old St. Mark's gives the kind of education and discipline that gets its graduates into the best colleges and the best clubs. Though the school's 177 boys now come from 21 states and nearly 20% are now attending on scholarships, Barber hopes to broaden the base even more. Every year, from now on, he will give a five-year scholarship to one boy from a different part of the U.S. "Private schools," says Barber, "justify themselves if, through their scholarships, they make it possible for all types of Americans to attend." Next year...
Just ten years ago, Marion Harper Jr., fresh from Yale, got a job as office boy at McCann-Erickson, Inc., one of the six largest U.S. advertising agencies. Tall (6 ft. 1 in.), strapping (190 Ibs.) Harper was far from the outsider's idea of an advertising man. He was quiet and studious; he did not wear hand-painted ties, didn't smoke, showed not a single huckster characteristic...
...been an office boy only three months when he was moved into the copy research department where he could put his liking for market research to work. Not long after, Harper was made manager of copy research: at 28, only seven years after he had left Yale, he was vice president in charge of research and merchandising...