Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after Mrs. Yukiko Hashiguchi, 34, sobbed to railroad officials that, somewhere down the line at a station she could not remember, she had stepped off her train for a drink of water with her seven-year-old son, who got lost, the officials phoned round, soon reported that her boy had been located, found her sobbing afresh because the train had gone on its way, carrying her luggage and five-year-old daughter...
Richard Tucker, 44, today the world's best tenor. A Brooklyn boy, Tucker sang as a cantor in the neighborhood synagogue, for years owned his own textile business, broke into the Met in 1945 with almost no previous operatic experience. He freely confesses his lack of acting talent, but under proper direction he has produced some fine dramatic characterizations, e.g., Don José, Turiddu, Farrando in Così Fan Tutte. He has a big, warm, sensuous tenore robusto...
Celeste voices optimism about his chances but even Republicans admit that he has no hope of unseating the fair-haired boy...
...Long's Louisiana, or the predictability of Vermont's. Traditionally, the Republicans pit a Puritan Beacon Hiller against a Democrat recently arisen from Boston's South End. This year the situation has changed: for one of the two major state posts, the Democrats have nominated a fair-haired boy from the upper classes, and the Republicans have chosen two relatively unknown political hacks in their nearly hopeless campaign effort. All four candidates are united in one respect: they are mediocre...
Lamkin is a boy wonder from 'way back': he entered Harvard at the age of sixteen. "My family wanted me to go to Groton or somewhere. I didn't want to go there ... For one thing, we had a wonderful country place, and I had a horse. And I hate compulsory athletics. I don't like to do anything I'm not good at ... I said lemme take the College Entrance Boards and see how I do. So I took...