Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early one morning last week, a 14-year-old Korean boy named Kim Choon II was nabbed by a guard inside the Eighth Army's aircraft maintenance center at Ascom City, 15 miles west of Seoul. He had broken into noncommissioned officers' quarters, pocketed a traveling clock, cigarette lighter, flashlight, two PX ration books, $6 worth of scrip. He was frog-marched to the guardroom, where a group of U.S. officers and enlisted men, irked by 20 burglaries in six weeks, decided to teach Kim a lesson...
...they packed 4-ft. Kim into a 3-ft. crate used to carry plane parts, put holes in it to give him air and loaded their cargo aboard a helicopter. The camp commander, Major Thomas G. James of Plymouth, Pa., flew the copter himself. James planned to leave the boy at a disused field and make him walk back to Ascom City. But he found he could not get the box open, and flew on to Uijongbu, twelve miles north of Seoul. 'T have a box of spare parts on board," he radioed the field. When...
Applicant McNair had an impressive career behind him. After starting out as an errand boy, he was, when he retired in 1955, general and political secretary of the Independent Labor Party. Retirement, he soon found, turned out to be a bore-"a little too much smoking, a little too much drinking, a gradual loss of interest in world affairs and, finally, senility at the end." After eight months of it, Bachelor McNair went before the King's College board in the fall of 1955. He discussed in both English and French his lifetime of wide reading, soon convinced...
...lessons-Author Feibleman has written a first novel about Negroes that is strikingly unlike most other literary heftings of the black man's burden. Perhaps because he is white. New York-born, New Orleans-reared Novelist Feibleman, 27, lacks the pamphleteer's rage of Richard Wright (Black Boy) and the jazzed-up, Joyced-up intellectual's revulsion of Ralph Ellison (The Invisible Man). His book is not a work of protest; it is a soft laugh at the whole spectrum of racial ironies...
Emergency. In Indianapolis, a boy walked into the children's division of the Central Library, yelled at Librarian Elizabeth Simmons: "Hey woman, get me a book on manners...