Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just who does Frankie think he is? Thank heavens for those good old Methodists and others who put up a howl in Madison. Frankie Boy has a lot to learn before he is put out to pasture...
Stranger in the Night. Home from a family picnic one day last week, the Nimers turned in early. Waking in the night, Melvin Jr. rubbed open his eyes, saw standing over his bed a strange man in overalls and white mask. The boy screamed for his mother; Loujean dashed in from the next bedroom. The stranger wheeled, flicked a knife; Loujean staggered to her bed with wounds in breast and abdomen. Slight (5 ft. 7 in.), Dr. Nimer leaped at the assailant, wrestled the man down the stairs, into the kitchen. Beside a telephone the doctor collapsed with chest...
...street hurling bricks and milk bottles at every house where Negroes lived. When they reached a Negro bar called the Calypso Club, three Molotov cocktails (bottles filled with gasoline ignited by a wick) were hurled out at the crowd. "Kill the bloody spades!" shrieked a 15-year-old Teddy boy. Others took up the cry-but it changed to "Kill the bloody coppers!" as truncheon-flailing police surged into the mob. Dozens were arrested and police stations stacked up piles of bicycle chains and tire irons, flick knives and nail-studded belts taken from the rioters. "It's become...
...pride of Mexico City, useful for everything from churches to bandstands. A Spanish-born architect who was once Spain's ski champion, Candela fought with the Loyalists (his brother, now his business partner, served with Franco), migrated via a concentration camp to Mexico in 1939. Fascinated as a boy with the way Spanish masons formed domes of hollow bricks, Candela went on to study the reinforced-concrete forms developed by Spain's Eduardo Torroja and Switzerland's Robert Maillart. In 1950 Candela made his-mark by designing (with Architect Jorge González Reyna) a concrete shell...
...plant-a featherbone factory making corsets and buggy whips-in tiny (pop. 1,500) Three Oaks, Mich. Donner went regularly to the Congregational Sunday School, shied from athletics, read voraciously, mostly history. His life was orderly. Remembered a childhood friend last week: "He had a routine even as a boy. So much time for work, so much for play and so much for study." Donner's parents put him through the University of Michigan because, explained his aged mother: "A boy can't become an honor student unless you pay his way." Fred became an honor student...