Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were his pride and joy, but unfortunately the youths of Boston town could not resist swinging on the limbs. The Captain once advertised a reward for "the Person or Persons that on Thursday night last cut and hacked one of the trees opposite his House . . ." Another time, espying a boy shaking one of the saplings, Captain Paddock "darted out of his house opposite and served him as he had served the tree...
Last spring the Amherst chapter of Phi Kappa Psi, one of 12 nationally-affiliated fraternities at that college, pledged a Negro student. The group's national council threatened suspension of the local if they took in the boy. The chapter stuck to its guns, initiated the student last week, and was thrown out by the national council on Monday...
...national council--in direct opposition to the edict of an overall body known as the National Interfraternity Council, which last week upheld the right of a local chapter to select its own members--was not based on any constitutional provisions. The national just didn't think that a colored boy should be elected to the Amherst chapter...
...rest." On its front page, the local Prensa Libre burbled: "She weighs 118 pounds, all curves and the most extraordinary sex appeal ever imagined. She and the Khan traveled all over Europe and Mexico like brothers." Fed up with excited reporters, the Aly snapped at one: "Look here, old boy. I like to answer your questions, but how can I when they are so embarrassing...
Down in Maine. Sickly as a boy, Wyeth kept close to the studio of his father, famed Illustrator N. C. Wyeth. ("Ever since I was twelve, nothing has meant anything to me except painting.") But while his father brought knights, pirates and Scottish chiefs to life, illustrating books like Treasure Island and the Boys' King Arthur, young Andrew became more & more fascinated with illustrating the little universe around him-at Chadds Ford, Pa., where he was born, and down east in Maine, where the family spent its summers. He lives now with his wife and two sons within...